Re: nested generic HashMap problem

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:52:35 -0700
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<8gHBn.159547$y13.49301@newsfe12.iad>
On 4/27/2010 12:02 PM, Lew wrote:

Chris Riesbeck wrote:

I don't follow the "don't have a type" part here. The correlation I was
trying to capture was

     T get(Demo<T>, long)

using an underlying Map(Demo<T>, Map<long, T>). That seems to me to be
well-defined, just not definable in Java.


Lew wrote:

What do you mean, not definable? That's exactly how you define it,
what you wrote just there, modulo the typos.

class Registry<T>
{
  private final Map<Demo<T>, Map<Long, T>> demoMaps =
    new HashMap<Demo<T>, Map<Long, T>> ();

  ...
}

--
Lew


Don't quote sigs.

Chris Riesbeck wrote:

That defines a Map of Maps of one type T. I.e., you can make one
Registry where an instance of Demo<Book> retrieves a Map of type<Long,
Book>, and another Registry where a key of type Demo<Author> retrieves a
Map of type<Long, Author>.

But you can't define a single Registry where a Demo<Book> retrieves a
Map<Long, Book> and Demo<Author> retrieves a Map<Long, Author>.


That isn't what you asked for in the post to which I replied.

It has been the problem that the OP has been trying to solve this entire
thread.
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