Re: Unchecked call to compareTo
Russell Wallace wrote:
John Ersatznom wrote:
If there's called code that really needs the original Record object, you
can implement a poison-seeping goo-oozing Record-returning getRecord()
method if you *really really have to* to pass to the older nongeneric
code. Just be sure to use the nifty Unicode-in-identifiers feature of
Java to put a glowing pentagram in the method name somewhere and locate
it at line 666 of the source file, mmmkay?
*laughs* Cute! Thing is... it's not actually true that everything in a
Record will be Comparable. Consider BLOB fields for example. One will of
course refrain from attempting to use a BLOB as a sort key, but the
compiler can't be expected to know that; I'm taking the SuppressWarnings
on compare() as the way to reassure the compiler of this fact.
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public class Record<T> {...}
public class ComparableRecord<T extends Comparable<T>> extends
Rector<T> implements Comparable<ComparableRecord<T>> {
T inner;
public int compareTo(ComparableRecord<T> o) {
return inner.compareTo(o.inner);
}
}
That'll show that pesky compiler. AND prevent you from even accidently
trying to compare blobs.
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