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Re: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
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Does it mean that you agree on changing APIs to use generics? I think it
is a separate topic.
Schaefer, Doug wrote:
>
> Too late. We've decided on 1.5.
>
> Doug.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Elena Laskavaia
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:05 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
>
> Personally I think we should avoid java 1.5 all together, and I don't
> think we should change API just to remove warnings. I think these
> particular warnings should be turned off.
>
> Jason Montojo wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been fixing compiler warnings about generics in the language
> > mapping classes. This involved having to change a number of method
> > signatures to account for parameterized collections. For example, I
> > changed this in
> > LanguageManager:
> >
> > Old:
> > public Map getContentTypeIdToLanguageDescriptionsMap(){ ... }
> >
> > New:
> > public Map<String, ILanguageDescriptor[]>
> > getContentTypeIdToLanguageDescriptionsMap(){ ... }
> >
> > Such a change wouldn't break existing clients and it makes the API
> > much easier to work with. Regardless, it is still an API change.
> >
> > Should I go ahead and make the changes to the signatures? Or should I
>
> > leave them as-is? I know we're already past the API freeze so I'd
> > like to know how the community feels about this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason Montojo
> > IBM CDT Team
> > IBM Toronto Lab
> > 905-413-5228
> > jmontojo@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
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