On 22 March 2013 09:09, Luke Daley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> DomainObjectCollection<T> {
> <S extends T> DomainObjectCollection<S> withType(Class<S>) {}
> }
>
> This generic signature is not right. It doesn't allow creating a filtered
> set by an interface. My use case was…
>
> tasks.withType(JavaForkOptions) {
>
> }
>
> But this doesn't work.
>
> Do we want to fix this? If so, how the hell do we do so in a backwards
> compatible way?
>
We can just remove the `extends T` bound on `S`. It's source and binary
backwards-compatible.
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