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Re: can this be done with generics?

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Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> public class Foo<T extends Foo<?>> {
>      public T foo() { /* do stuff */ return self(); }
>
>      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
>      protected final T self() { return (T) this; }
>
>      public static void main(String[] args) {
>          new Baz<Baz<?>>().foo().baz().bar();
>          new TheEnd().foo().last().baz().bar();
>      }
> }
>
> class Bar<T extends Bar<?>> extends Foo<T> {
>      public T bar() { /* do stuff */ return self(); }
> }
> class Baz<T extends Baz<?>> extends Bar<T> {
>      public T baz() { /* do stuff */ return self(); }
> }

Finally I got my head around it.

This is f***ing brilliant && you're genious!

For the extra win, my "source" of objects are really static factory methods,
instead of "new"s, so the code on users' end now essentially looks like this:

   getFoo().foo() /* compiler would correctly refuse .bar() or .baz() here */ ;
   getBar().foo().bar() /* compiler would correctly refuse .bar() here */ ;
   getBaz().foo().bar().baz(); /* all fine */

It can't get any better than that.

(In case it's already too long since I last said it: you're genious!)

Thanks also to Patrick for his draft!

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can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-25 00:55 +0000
  Re: can this be done with generics? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-24 21:11 -0500
    Re: can this be done with generics? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-11-25 01:43 -0800
      Re: can this be done with generics? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-11-25 01:47 -0800
      Re: can this be done with generics? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-26 21:32 -0500
    Re: can this be done with generics? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-11-25 11:30 +0100
      Re: can this be done with generics? Saxo <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-11-25 02:36 -0800
      Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-25 10:45 +0000
      Re: can this be done with generics? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-26 21:35 -0500
        Re: can this be done with generics? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-11-27 10:48 +0100
        Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-27 10:18 +0000
  Re: can this be done with generics? Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2013-11-25 12:59 +0100
    Re: can this be done with generics? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-25 22:31 +0100
      Re: can this be done with generics? Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2013-11-26 12:03 +0100
      Re: can this be done with generics? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-11-26 21:32 +0000
        Re: can this be done with generics? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-26 23:30 +0100
      Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-27 18:53 +0000
        Re: can this be done with generics? Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-11-28 22:28 +0100
          Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-30 14:21 +0000
  Re: can this be done with generics? Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2013-11-25 09:02 -0600
    Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-26 01:04 +0000
      Re: can this be done with generics? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-26 08:16 +0100
        Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-26 20:42 +0000
    Re: can this be done with generics? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-11-26 21:38 -0500
      Re: can this be done with generics? Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2013-11-27 11:05 -0600
  Re: can this be done with generics? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 08:36 -0800
    Re: can this be done with generics? taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-11-25 09:04 -0800
      Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-26 00:50 +0000
        Re: can this be done with generics? Arivald <NOSPAMarivald@interia.pl> - 2013-11-26 07:10 +0100
          Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-27 18:58 +0000
  Re: can this be done with generics? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-12-07 09:04 -0800
    Re: can this be done with generics? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-12-07 19:20 +0000
      Re: can this be done with generics? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-12-10 11:14 -0800

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