Please file an RFE for this issue so that the core-libs team can evaluate. While this seems like a good use for default methods, it may be difficult to justify including a convenience method at this late stage in the JDK 9 schedule.
Thanks. > On 14 Oct 2016, at 22:21, Laird Nelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 7:19 AM Vincent Ryan <vincent.x.r...@oracle.com > <mailto:vincent.x.r...@oracle.com>> wrote: > The problem of having to cast the result of Context.lookup > <http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/javax/naming/Context.html#lookup-javax.naming.Name-> > can be solved using an existing method: > InitialContext.doLookup > <http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/javax/naming/InitialContext.html#doLookup-javax.naming.Name-> > > That solves the simple casting problem from an initial Context, but not for > all Contexts, and the simple addition of a relatively trivial default method > like this in the Context interface it seems to me would open the door for > Context implementers to reimplement it to do more sophisticated—and > deliberate—type conversion. > > Best, > Laird
