Re: type combinations
hi Stefan,
You can only return something that is both an A and B by returning an
object of a class which implements these both interfaces given that
both A and B are non related.
The compiler is giving you error because T can be given any data type
same or different than C. Hence, the declared returning data type (T)
might not fall in the same type heirarchy of C.
Regards,
Sidd
Stefan Ram wrote:
I have a class whose instances are both an A and a B:
interface A {}
interface B {}
class C implements A, B {}
The method =BBm=AB needs to declare that it returns somthing that
is also both an A and a B (but not necessarily a C).
I try to express this via the type paramter =BBT=AB:
<T extends A & B> T m(){ return new C(); }
I was hoping that the compiler (JDK 1.6 beta) would sse that
=BBnew C()=AB satisfies this requirement. But the compiler
reports:
incompatible types
found : C
required: T
{ return new C(); }
1 error ^
How could the code be modified to express that:
- m returns an object that implements (or =BBextends=AB) both A and B=
, and
- =BBreturn new C()=AB is accepted within m's declaration for this pu=
rpose?
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