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From: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schaible <joerg.schaible@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Collections] Is commons collections dormant ?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:35:24 +0100
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Hi Benedict,

Benedikt Ritter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> finally I've found the time to answer to this topic :) We had a similar
> discussion a while ago [1]. Back then James suggested to drop
> collections completely in favor of google guava. I have started to
> implement QueryableCollections in trunk anyway, because I still disagree
> with James.
> I would appreciate comments from one of commons collections commiters,
> if they would like to have something like that. I still think, that the
> possibility to query for elements would be a nice addition to collections.
> 
> ATM I'm having some problems with the latest source:
> Name clash: The method get(K) of type MultiMap<K,V> has the same erasure
> as get(Object) of type Get<K,V> but does not override it
> 
> Does anyone know something about that?

That's a very unfortunate signature from the JDK interface and all I can 
guess, why it defines Object as argument, is for compatibility reasons. If 
we derive from the JDK interface, you cannot declare "get(K)", only 
"get(Object)".

- Jörg


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