Re: Generics

From:
 kofa <kovacs.it@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:55:24 -0000
Message-ID:
<1183114524.470649.204660@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
OK, making a fool of myself (or just showing what I fool I am):
my solution above is wrong - Oliver actually does the instanceof check
in EventManagerImpl.raiseEvent. I should have written:
===
public <T extends Event> Set<EventListener<? super T>> get(Class<?
extends T> eventClass) {
    Set<EventListener<?>> listenersForType =
myListenersByType.get(eventClass);
    Set<EventListener<? super T>> listeners = new HashSet<EventListener<?
super T>>();
    listeners.addAll((Collection<? extends EventListener<? super T>>)
myListenersByType.get(eventClass));
    return listeners;
}
===

However, this gives the warning:
Type safety: The cast from Set<EventListener<?>> to Collection<?
extends EventListener<? super T>> is actually checking against the
erased type Collection

Copying manually, casting individual elements solves that:
===
public <T extends Event> Set<EventListener<? super T>> get(Class<?
extends T> key) {
    Set<EventListener<? super T>> listeners = new HashSet<EventListener<?
super T>>();
    for (Entry<Class<? extends Event>, Set<EventListener<?>>> entry :
myListenersByType.entrySet()) {
        listeners.add((EventListener<? super T>) entry.getValue());
    }
    return listeners;
}
===

Is there a nicer way?

Kofa

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