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From: "Matt Benson (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (COLLECTIONS-461) splitmap.TransformedMap is not
 really a Map
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Matt Benson commented on COLLECTIONS-461:
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I'm still not connecting the dots as to how the "real" Maps are compromised.  {{TransformedMap}} isn't a {{Map}}.  It's not intended to be plugged in as one.  Rather, if you need to be agnostic to whether you have a {{Map}} or a {{Put}} and a {{Get}}, you can program to the {{Put}}/{{Get}} APIs and use any of the {{IterableMap}} impls provided by {{\[collections\]}} to implement these as well.  By extending {{Map}} and {{Put}}, {{IterableMap}} forces the RT of {{#put()}} to be narrowed to {{V}}.
                
> splitmap.TransformedMap is not really a Map
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-461
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-461
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sebb
>             Fix For: 4.x
>
>
> splitmap.TransformedMap is part of the Get/Put hierarchy, but it does not behave like a proper Java Map. 
> In particular, java.util.Map.put(K, V) returns V.
> However the collections Put interface returns Object.
> As far as I can tell, this was done in order to be able to include TransformedMap in the hiearchy. But the side effect is to break the generics for all the non-transformer maps in the hierarchy.
> Maybe there should be a separate PutTransformed interface which has the appropriate generic types, i.e.
> public T put(K key, V value)

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