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RE: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
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I think it is a good idea to clean that up.
Markus.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Montojo
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:39 PM
> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Generics and APIs
> Importance: Low
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> 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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