ah. good point. so we should remove generics from subclasses that don't
benefit. how's that sound?
Johan Compagner wrote:
>
> But what is the problem then?
> You do want the textfield?
> But the component isn't really in your way and does give you
> getModelObject()
> i don't see the point of deleting it from Component but keeping it for
> pretty much everything else
>
> johan
>
>
> On 3/7/07, Jonathan Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> the imodel wouldn't be generic in component. only in subclasses. i
>> actually mildly prefer total generification too, but a lot of people have
>> expressed annoyance at generic code bulk so i've been listening to that.
>> basically, getModelObject would return Object below, but ListView<T>
>> would
>> return T. or that was the idea... i'm not sure if it's good. i just
>> wanted
>> us to discuss it to see what's there.
>>
>>
>> Stefan Lindner wrote:
>> >
>> > Maybe I am too accustomed to generics now but I can't imagine how a
>> > non-generic Component class definition with a generic Model parameter
>> can
>> > look like.
>> > Now Compinent is defined as
>> >
>> > class Component<T> ... {
>> > public Component(final MarkupContainer<?> parent, final
>> String
>> > id, final IModel<T> model) {
>> > ...
>> > }
>> >
>> > public final T getModelObject() {
>> > ...
>> > }
>> >
>> > How should a non generic class definition look like? And pepole that
>> don't
>> > like or need generics can still use the raw types.
>> > My preference for a strong gneric API comes from the experience I made
>> > when I moved from Wicket 1.2 to 2.0. The simple syntactic modifications
>> > for generic Components showed up several programming errors that we
>> > otherwise had to debug during runtime of the application. It also
>> showed
>> > up some design problems of our applicatioin. So a strong generic API
>> may
>> > took a little bit more time in developing an application but it saves
>> much
>> > more time in debugging.
>> >
>> > Stefan Lindner
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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