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Re: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs

+1 I think making these changes is just part of cleaning up the warnings and
should be OK to do now even for API.

- Ken

> From: ext Jason Montojo <jmontojo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:38:46 -0400
> To: <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
> 
> 
> 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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