[jdom-interest] Last call: getChild/getChildren versusgetChildElement/getChildElements
Bradley S. Huffman
hip at cs.okstate.edu
Mon Feb 9 16:22:54 PST 2004
Jason Hunter writes:
> I've been contemplating the idea of, after shipping JDOM 1.0, following
> it with a J2SE 1.5 enabled alternate version. The J2SE 1.5 version
> would take advantage of generics and "covariant return types". This way
> the Lists returned would be Lists of Element or Lists of Content.
> Covariant return types are even cooler, and let you return a specific
> subclass of the parent's return type. So for example getParent() on
> Text could return an Element even though the inherited getParent() only
> says it returns a Parent. There's lots of neat options.
>
> What do people think? Perhaps call it Generic JDOM. :-) If nothing
> else, it'd be a great playground to learn about J2SE 1.5 features and
> actually could be a textbook case for the use of covariant return types.
> I'm planning in my SD West conference talk in March to delve into
> these possibilities.
1.0 first :-)
But after that I'm not so sure a generic JDOM is going to be as exciting as
it first sounds. For example it would be great to get rid of the wrapped
lists like
ContentList content = new ContentList();
public List getContent();
and replace them with a generic version such as
List<Content> content = new ArrayList<Content>(); // syntax?
public List<Content> getContent();
unfortunately because of "live" lists that won't work, got to set that
parent :( Which means we're still left with one of our biggest headaches,
the code to support "live" lists.
Brad
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