Thu can only use Set if you have a notion of equality and comparison. Do you for this collection? On Jan 11, 2016 9:48 PM, "Gary Gregory" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, not really, I'd like to express whether the collection allows for > duplicates or not, if not, use a set. > > Gary > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Even a Collection works well for this. >> >> >> On Monday, 11 January 2016, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> It is returning a List already. Does it really matter much? >>>> >>> >>> It is not indeed critical. It's just a finer point of declaring the >>> intention of the data model, either duplicates are allowed and expected, or >>> not. >>> >>> Gary >>> >>>> >>>> Ralph >>>> >>>> On Jan 11, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Should APIs like: >>>> >>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configuration.getPluginPackages() >>>> >>>> really return a List instead of a Set? >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> -- >>>> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >>>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >> > > > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
