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Hudson commented on COLLECTIONS-231:
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Integrated in commons-collections #35 (See 
[https://builds.apache.org/job/commons-collections/35/])
    [COLLECTIONS-231] return specific type rather than base type in factory 
methods, javadoc cleanup. (Revision 1353148)

     Result = SUCCESS
tn : http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?view=rev&rev=1353148
Files : 
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/AbstractBagDecorator.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/AbstractMapBag.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/AbstractSortedBagDecorator.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/HashBag.java
* 
/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/PredicatedBag.java
* 
/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/PredicatedSortedBag.java
* 
/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/SynchronizedBag.java
* 
/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/SynchronizedSortedBag.java
* 
/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/TransformedBag.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/TransformedSortedBag.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/UnmodifiableBag.java
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/commons/proper/collections/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections/bag/UnmodifiableSortedBag.java

                
> Not return the base interface on decorate
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-231
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-231
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Map
>    Affects Versions: 3.2
>            Reporter: Torsten Curdt
>             Fix For: 4.0-beta-1
>
>
> At the moment I don't see a reason why the static "decorate" method does not 
> return ListOrderedMap but just the base interface OrderedMap.
> I want to decorate a Map to be a ListOrderedMap but due to the fact that the 
> constructor is not visible and decorate only returns the base interface 
> OrderedMap an unnecessary cast is required.
>  ListOrderedMap map = (ListOrderedMap)ListOrderedMap.decorate(new MyMap());
> As the decorate method is static and not part of any interface it should be 
> fine to return the real type instead of the base. Otherwise I'd suggest to 
> make the constructor visible. From the API POV It is not really 
> understandable why this
>  ListOrderedMap map = new ListOrderedMap();
> is fine and creates a HashMap under the hood while this
>  ListOrderedMap map = new ListOrderedMap(new MyMap()));
> is not ok.

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