But keep commenting - the idea of the milestones are to let people see the changes & feedback their thoughts on the generification & how it fits into the various use-cases beyond the one's we have...
/Gwyn On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Igor Vaynberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > page was not yet generified in m1, which is what i assume you are > using. 1.4m2 will be out shortly where this has been corrected, and > you can always use a snapshot. > > -igor > > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Frits Jalvingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I'm a Wicket Virgin (hm ;-) and have just started to look at Wicket 1.4. It >> seems something is wrong with the generics changes there. I have a page which >> itself has a model: a CompoundPropertyModel<SomeClass>. Most basic Wicket >> components are generic: things like Label need a type parameter specifying >> the model (which by the way makes for very verbose coding). But the whole >> Page hierarchy gets defined hard as a MarkupContainer<Object>. This renders >> the setModel() calls on Page unusable because they in turn also expect >> IModel<Object>'s, and not IModel<? extends Object>. This makes it impossible >> to pass any Model into a Page-derived object without making use of a complex >> cast: >> >> setModel((IModel<Object>) (Object) new CompoundPropertyModel<BuilderState>( >> bs)); >> >> This only works because of the utterly idiotic way that Generics are >> implemented in Java (type erasure; usability erasure would be a better name >> 8-(), and even there you need to watch out: Eclipse will silently remove the >> above cast and then generate a compilation error 8-( >> >> It looks like thinks like Page should also be generic (which looks like >> crap)... >> >> Or I'm doing something wrong, of course ;-) >> >> Frits >> >> -- >> DRM: Digital Restrictions Management -- learn about the dangers at >> http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
