Hi All, I've updated the KIP with changes as discussed in this Thread.
Thanks, Damian On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 at 16:51 Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > I think it's important to distinguish the use cases of defining new stores > (somewhat rare) versus using the `store` method (very common). The strategy > employed here is a common way to use generics to ensure type safety for the > latter case. In the former case, there are all sorts of weird things one > could do to defeat the type system, but spending a bit more effort to get > it right so that the common case is safer and more pleasant is worth it, in > my opinion. > > Ismael > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, you get compile time errors > > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 at 16:22 Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > You wont get a runtime error as you wouldn't find a store of that type. > > > The API would return null > > > > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 at 16:22 Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > > > > > >> But if "my-store" is not of type MyStoreType don't you still get a run > > >> time > > >> error that in effect is the same as the class cast would be? Basically > > the > > >> question I'm asking is whether this added complexity is actually > moving > > >> runtime errors to compile time errors. > > >> > > >> -Jay > > >> > > >
