Re: Interface Delegation or ??

From:
Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:56:53 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 14, 9:40 pm, Rob McDonald <rob.a.mcdon...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am constructing a class hierarchy where I would like to extend a
runtime determined base class.

Lets say I have an Interface, IPoint.

I implement two classes

class Point2D implements IPoint
class Point3D implements IPoint

Then, I want to create a new class, Vertex, which extends from one of
the PointND's. I don't want to have to implement two Vertex classes
(one for each PointND).

Right now, my solution is to use interface Delegation

class Vertex implements IPoint{
  protected IPoint p;
  Vertex(IPoint p){
    this.p=p;
  }
// Wrap all the IPoint methods to point to this.p

}

Is there any other syntactic mechanism to accomplish this in Java? Is
this the right way? Are there some other keywords I should search for
that I'm missing?

TIA,

           Rob


There is no clean way to extend at runtime. While a Vertex may seem
like a Point to you, its really not a Point. A Vertex has a location,
and has related Edges, where a Point simply has a Location. Perhaps
you really want a Location2d and Location3d, and then a class Point<L
extends Location>, and class Vertex<L extends Location>

If you think about abstracting the concept of a location from the
concept of a point/vertex, you simply this model a bit.

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