Re: Generics on map.
Its quite obvious that runtime return value from the get() is null.
But the very idea of generics is to avoid these runtime mistakes(??)
and push them to design (compile) time. Wont it make sense to throw up
at least a warning that the key is of incompatible type ?? btw, put()
does care about the type check for Key and Value .
Regards,
Ravi.
On Mar 14, 8:04 pm, Eric Sosman <Eric.Sos...@sun.com> wrote:
Ravi wrote:
Hi,
The following code compiles in eclipse 3.3.1. Shouldn't the compiler
throw an exception as the key doesn't pass instanceof check?
class Test {
public static void main(String args[]) {
Map<String,String> testmap = new HashMap<String, String>();
testmap.get(new StringBuffer());
}
}
No. The get() method of the Map interface takes any
Object reference as its argument, not a parameterized type.
Since testmap will only accept entries that have Strings as
keys, querying for a key of any other type will return null.
It's legal to ask, even when the answer will be "No."
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