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Subject: Re: DefaultTableModel.getDataVector() and Java 11
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On 2019-04-03 17:53, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> In Java up to 8  DefaultTableModel had a method  getDataVector()
> that returned a raw Vector.
> 
> My application's custom TableModel overrode the method to return
> a Vector<MyRowType>, where MyRowType provided direct type-safe
> accessors for each column.
> 
> In Java 11 it seems to have changed to returning a Vector of 
> raw Vectors.
> 
> At first glance this seems just goofy to me, because that doesn't
> really make it type-safe (it still involves a raw type), and it even
> prevents me from making it type-safe myself.
> 
> I hope, someone here can provide me with a second glance that
> clarifies the rationale behind the change.
> 

Well, /unless/, indeed, your intent is to override, it strikes me that:

Object cell = tableModel.getDataVector().get(0).get(0)

is more user-friendly than

Object cell = ((Vector<?>) tableModel.getDataVector().get(0)).get(0)

-- 
DF.