Re: Method calling
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, gaijinco wrote:
Thanks Steve and Seamus for your quick responses.
I checked the API and I got a prototype running very quickly.
There's only just I question remaining: In the API Class is not a raw
type, it's parametized. However if I try to do this:
TestClass t = new TestClass();
Class<TestClass> c = t.getClass();
Eclipse's compiler complains:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from Class<capture#1-of ? extends
TestClass> to Class<TestClass>
What's the deal with that?
It's because when you have a variable of type TestClass, it could contain
an instance of TestClass, or of a subclass of TestClass. So, your Class
could be a Class<TestClass>, or it could be a Class<a subclass of
TestClass> - and in formal generics language, that's Class<? extends
TestClass>.
To get an exact Class, do it statically, with a class literal:
Class<TestClass> cl = TestClass.class ;
You could do this, though:
Class<? extends TestClass> cl = t.getClass() ;
You can do pretty much the same things with a Class<? extends TestClass>
as a Class<TestClass>. More or less. Probably.
tom
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