Yes, this is quite unfortunate, and I can tell you that this is one
of the issues where there was much discussion in the EG and in the
groups of people trying to influence JSR 14. The bottom line is that
the chosen implementation of generics works without any changes to
the JVM, and that
Jason,
As per my understanding, an ArrayListString will help generating
compilation errors should one try to add a non String object to the list.
It does not mean that you can not add a non String object to the underlying
list. For e.g. the following code does not result in an error:
public
On Sep 30, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
Any of you generics experts out there know if there is any way to
get the generic type from a generic class... like, say you have:
Class type = new ArrayListString().getClass();
Is there any way to determine that this is an ArrayList
Alright... thanks, that is what I figured :-( So lame... I can
figure out that a class as T and E bound, but I can't figure out the
type of those buggers... so stupid :-(
--jason
On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:08 PM, David Jencks wrote:
On Sep 30, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
Any of
On 10/1/07, Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alright... thanks, that is what I figured :-( So lame... I can
figure out that a class as T and E bound, but I can't figure out the
type of those buggers...
The underlying object does not impose any restrictions as such (and so there
is
I guess he wants something like, I have an object obj which is of type
ArrayListString. From this obj, I want to arrive at String which is the
type of the objects the array list holds.
Vamsi
On 10/1/07, Gareth Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I use this code in a generic dao
Any of you generics experts out there know if there is any way to get
the generic type from a generic class... like, say you have:
Class type = new ArrayListString().getClass();
Is there any way to determine that this is an ArrayList containing
String objects? I can't seem to figure
