I suggest you both talk to Dain and see about integrating it into
XBean. XBean is used for all of Geronimo's EE injection and Dain/David
are pretty thorough. I'm not planning on using anything else on trunk.
On 25-Sep-08, at 10:15 AM, Mark Hobson wrote:
2008/9/24 Joerg Hohwiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Also xbean-reflect "thinks" in java.lang.reflect.Type terms so
it's easy
to add converters that are generics-aware. For example I recently
added
converters for Map<K,V> and Set<T> and List<T> and it only took an
hour.
I spent the last year with creating support for this.
You have to rebuild all the stuff that is in javac but missing in
the JDK.
The erasure was maybe the only way to introduce generics but it is a
real pain. I almost got braindead with this.
Is <? super CharSequence>.isAssignableFrom(<? super String>)
or vice versa?
FWIW, I've written a small library here internally for working with
Types that:
- provides a factory to create the various incarnations
- implements isAssignable and other useful Class methods for Types
- formats and parses Types to and from Strings
- provides type literals (like Guice's TypeLiteral)
I agree this kind of code should be available in the JDK to prevent
people from reinventing the wheel. If there's any interest I could
look into open-sourcing it?
Cheers,
Mark
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