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? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org