Re: Queue and Map interface
On 6/13/2014 4:52 PM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
Hello,
I would like to create a class which implements a Map and a Queue with
class myMapQueue<A,B> extends myAbstractClass implements Map<A,B>,
Queue<B> {}
The problem is the remove(Object) method, because the method is defined
in the Queue and the Map
interface in the Queue with boolean remove(Object) and in the Map with V
remove(Object), so I get
a "clash error". How can I solve this problem.
"Favor composition over inheritance." -- Bloch
In short, I don't believe you can do what you want -- not in the
way you want to do it. An alternative might be to implement Map<A,B>
in an outer class, one that also contains a Queue<B> implementation as
an inner class. The outer class would also have a getQueue() method
to return an instance of the inner class -- whether that's a new
instance created on the fly or a single instance that's created once
per outer class is up to you.
For even more "favoritism," you could have the outer class
implement neither Map nor Queue, and delegate both those interfaces
to inner classes.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid