All,
I thought I'd check out the collections_jdk5_branch to see if there
was anything that I could tinker with. I decided to look into the
functors, since that's what I'm mainly interested in. Immediately I
noticed ChainedTransformer. It's declared as:
public class ChainedTransformer<T> implements Transformer<T, T>, Serializable
So, does this mean that a ChainedTransformer always has to have the
same input and output types? Transformer is declared as:
public interface Transformer<I, O> {
public O transform(I input);
}
Shouldn't it support different input/output types?
What I was thinking about would be a new way to think about these chains:
public class ChainedTransformer<I,O> implements Transformer<I,O>
{
public ChainedTransformer(Transformer<I,O> initial);
public O transform(I input);
public <T> ChainedTransformer<I,T> append(Transformer<O,T> next);
}
Typically, to create a ChainedTransformer, you have to put your
transformers in a collection and pass them in to create one. This
way, instead of having to create a new collection, you'd just append
as you go. What do you think?
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