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Re: Hairy generics question

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Daniel Pitts wrote:
> The better suggestion that I have for you is to try to find a better way of
> handling this generic-type interdependency. I once wrote something very
> similar, and it is a headache to maintain. Especially when I needed to add in
> (I'm making up names to match your example) CompItemAccessor. And then later
> CompItemValidator. And so on. I eventually ended up with one class
> ContentTypeMetadata<X,Y,Z,A,B,C> which contained all the basic information for
> each content type, and the class types didn't really have to know much about
> each other.
>
> Ask yourself, do all these objects really need to know the exact type of all
> the other objects, or can they just know about some shared base interface?

Or some bunch of non-generic interfaces?

And do they really all need to implement all these interfaces, or can they 
compose elements that do?

"Favor composition over inheritance".
- Joshua Bloch, /Effective Java/

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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