Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-19 Thread Roger Perryman
Thanks to those who offered help. For anyone following this thread, the solution for creating the dictionary was to define it as NSDictionary tmpDict = new NSDictionary( new NSArray( new Object[] { location, schedType, Integer.valueOf( nWeekday ) } ), new NSArray( new String[] { "toLoc

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread Roger Perryman
I would prefer to use generics to make my code more robust. Generics have revealed a few cases where I had bugs/quirks in my code that the compiler never complained about before. In most cases, it is tedious but easy to get generics working. The places where I seem to encounter the most dif

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread Daniel Mejia
ECTED]> Fecha: 14 de agosto de 2008 10:20:43 a.m. GMT-05:00 Para: "WebObjects-Dev List" Asunto: Re: Generics Frustrations Personally, I think generics are a waste of time except as a means of documenting method parameters and return values in library code. And in cases where wan

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread Ramsey Gurley
On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Roger Perryman wrote: What is the correct way to write these using generics? Oops, almost forgot, there's a great video on using generics here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi_I7oD_uGI and a reference from Sun on how to use them here http://java.sun.com/j2se/

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread Ramsey Gurley
Hi Roger, Do you want to use generics or are you just trying to make the warnings go away? If it's the latter, adding @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public class MyClass { ... } does the trick for me. It works with methods and members too if you don't want to suppress on the entire class

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread John Huss
Personally, I think generics are a waste of time except as a means of documenting method parameters and return values in library code. And in cases where want Object anyway, just skip the generics. But that's just me. John On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Roger Perryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote

Re: Generics Frustrations

2008-08-14 Thread Roger Perryman
All, I am converting a project from Xcode 2.x (WO 5.3) to Eclipse 3.4 (WO 5.4.2). I have decided to also "upgrade" to using generics. So far, it has not been a fun experience. I've read over the threads on this list and several of the external references provided. Each time I think I have