Re: Create a JAVA Client/Server app in 5 Minutes

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:11:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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Andreas Otto wrote:

if I change to

   private List<List<String>> data;

as you mentioned ... I get the following error


That's not precisely what I mentioned.

CLASSPATH=.:./.:$CLASSPATH


What is "./."?

And since you're using the "-classpath" option you don't need the
CLASSPATH envar.

javac -d . -classpath "../javamsgque:." -Xlint:unchecked Filter1b.jav=

a

Filter1b.java:29: incompatible types
found : java.util.ArrayList<java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String>>
required: java.util.List<java.util.List<java.lang.String>>
    data = new ArrayList<ArrayList<String>>();
           ^


Andreas Leitgeb gave one way to declare this. Another way is:

 private List <List <String>> data =
    new ArrayList <List <String>> ();

The difference is that Andreas's suggested form

 private List <? extends List <String>> data =
    new ArrayList <? extends List <String>> ();

requires that all nested 'List's be of the same concrete type, and the
way without 'extends' allows each outer 'List' element to be a
different concrete kind of 'List'.

It is well worth studying generics to the point where you get this.

Filter1b.java:43: incompatible types
found : java.util.List<java.lang.String>
required: java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String>
    for (ArrayList<String> d: data) {
                              ^
2 errors


In a 'for-each' loop, the type of the loop variable must match the
base type of the 'Iterable'. In this case, you needed
  for ( List <String> d : data )

List is in 1.6 an abstract class -> I can not create a List object !!


'List' in Java 1.2 onward is an interface. It is not an abstract
class. Regardless, you can, indeed, create a 'List' object; you just
have to provide a concrete subtype to the 'new' operator. This is
both fundamental Java programming and fundamental object-oriented
programming. Program to the interface, not the implementation.

For example,

 private List <List <String>> data =
    new ArrayList <List <String>> ();

creates a 'List' object. (!!)

--
Lew

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