Re: Generics ?

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:18:44 -0500
Message-ID:
<nospam-B23F53.11184417122011@news.aioe.org>
In article <jcem2m$gbm$1@dont-email.me>,
 Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> wrote:

Using Java 7, given the class file:

import javax.swing.*;

public class KList extends JList {
     ListModel model = new DefaultListModel();

     public KList() {
         setModel(model);
     }
}


I defined a generic subclass of JList:

  class KList<E> extends JList<E> {

      public KList(ListModel<E> model) {
          this.setModel(model);
      }
  }

Then I created a ListModel<String>:

  DefaultListModel<String> dlm = new DefaultListModel<>();
  dlm.add(...);

Then I used it to create a new KList:

  KList<String> list = new KList<>(dlm);

Here's my sscce:

import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import javax.swing.*;

/** @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/5372169/230513 */
public class JakesList {

    private static final DateFormat df =
        new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");

    private static class KList<E> extends JList<E> {

        public KList(ListModel<E> model) {
            this.setModel(model);
        }
    }

    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        DefaultListModel<String> dlm = new DefaultListModel<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            GregorianCalendar knownDate = new GregorianCalendar();
            knownDate.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 3 * i);
            dlm.add(i, df.format(knownDate.getTime()));
        }
        KList<String> list = new KList<>(dlm);
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, list);
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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