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Re: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
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Personally I think we should avoid java 1.5 all together, and I don't
think we should change API just to remove warnings. I think these
particular warnings should be turned off.
Jason Montojo wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been fixing compiler warnings about generics in the language mapping
> classes. This involved having to change a number of method signatures to
> account for parameterized collections. For example, I changed this in
> LanguageManager:
>
> Old:
> public Map getContentTypeIdToLanguageDescriptionsMap(){ ... }
>
> New:
> public Map<String, ILanguageDescriptor[]>
> getContentTypeIdToLanguageDescriptionsMap(){ ... }
>
> Such a change wouldn't break existing clients and it makes the API much
> easier to work with. Regardless, it is still an API change.
>
> Should I go ahead and make the changes to the signatures? Or should I
> leave them as-is? I know we're already past the API freeze so I'd
> like to
> know how the community feels about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Montojo
> IBM CDT Team
> IBM Toronto Lab
> 905-413-5228
> jmontojo@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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