Re: Delegation and generics craziness

From:
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:33:20 -0700
Message-ID:
<KJ_nk.18857$89.14562@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com>
Sideswipe wrote:

So,

I am trying to create a delegate Map that simply throws an exception
if an attempt to insert a duplicate key occurs. That code is simple.
However, the delegate code is not and I am getting compile errors with
regards to my generics. I make no claims to fully understand generics.

....

public class ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap<K, V> implements Map<K,V> {
    private final Map<? extends K, ? extends V> delegate;

    public ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V>
delegate) {
        this.delegate = delegate;
    }


Try this, see if it helps. If it does, consider picking up Effective
Java by Joshua Bloch. I also used _Learning Java_ by O'Reilly to puzzle
this out, but the relevant section is so short I'm not sure it's worth it.

class ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap<K, V> implements Map<K,V> {
     private final Map<K,V> delegate;

     public ExceptionOnDuplicateKeyMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V>
delegate) {
         this.delegate = (Map<K,V>) delegate;
     }

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