Re: Casting an object to a genericized TreeMap

From:
"Kaiser S." <sausey@name.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 03 May 2007 15:41:59 +0200
Message-ID:
<4639e698$0$5090$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>
Ingo R. Homann a ?crit :

Hi,

Kaiser S. wrote:

What do you think of this code ? Is there a better way do enforce this
kind of cast ?

    public static <K, V> TreeMap<K, V> treemap(Object o, Class<K>
keyClass, Class<V> valueClass) {
        TreeMap<?, ?> tm = (TreeMap)o; // warning 1
               for (Map.Entry<?, ?> couple : tm.entrySet()) {
            keyClass.cast(couple.getKey());
            valueClass.cast(couple.getValue());
        }
        return (TreeMap)o; // warning 2
    }

called with:

TreeMap<String, Double> tm = treemap(o, String.class, Double.class);


You know that your code does not do anything, and that the following
would do exactly the same?

public static <K, V> TreeMap<K, V> treemap(Object o) {
 return (TreeMap<K,V>)o; // warning
}


Well i hope not. I check the class of all the keys and values; you must
have seen it...

Now the doc of Class.cast says it throw a ClassCastException if the cast
is invalid, so after the for loop, i can make the ugly cast because i'm
sure i won't get a ClassCastException somewhere else in my program.

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