Java Generics

Posted by Ben Woodcroft-2 on Jun 08, 2007; 7:38am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Java-Generics-tp3699132.html

Hi all,

This is one for the Java coding folks. I'm just wondering what the opinions
are for implementing
generics<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html>in
the ImageJ code are. Generics only work with Java
1.5+, but since 1.5 is already recommended that is ok?

I would personally find doing things like making an ImageStack a
collection/iterable of ImageProcessors useful, like this:


public class ImageStack<T extends ImageProcessor> implements List<T>{
  public T get(int sliceNum){..}
  ...
}




Then you could do stuff like:

ImageStack<ByteProcessor> stack = new ImageStack<ByteProcessor>();
for(ByteProcessor b : stack){
  //do something only ByteProcessors can do
}


Thanks,
ben