Работаю с библиотекой jackson под Android и столкнулся с непониманием работы с Generic'ами через рефлекцию.
В библиотеке есть костыль TypeReference:
package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
/**
* This generic abstract class is used for obtaining full generics type information
* by sub-classing; it must be converted to {@link ResolvedType} implementation
* (implemented by <code>JavaType</code> from "databind" bundle) to be used.
* Class is based on ideas from
* <a href="http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html"
* >http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html</a>,
* Additional idea (from a suggestion made in comments of the article)
* is to require bogus implementation of <code>Comparable</code>
* (any such generic interface would do, as long as it forces a method
* with generic type to be implemented).
* to ensure that a Type argument is indeed given.
*<p>
* Usage is by sub-classing: here is one way to instantiate reference
* to generic type <code>List<Integer></code>:
*<pre>
* TypeReference ref = new TypeReference<List<Integer>>() { };
*</pre>
* which can be passed to methods that accept TypeReference, or resolved
* using <code>TypeFactory</code> to obtain {@link ResolvedType}.
*/
public abstract class TypeReference<T> implements Comparable<TypeReference<T>>
{
protected final Type _type;
protected TypeReference()
{
Type superClass = getClass().getGenericSuperclass();
if (superClass instanceof Class<?>) { // sanity check, should never happen
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Internal error: TypeReference constructed without actual type information");
}
/* 22-Dec-2008, tatu: Not sure if this case is safe -- I suspect
* it is possible to make it fail?
* But let's deal with specific
* case when we know an actual use case, and thereby suitable
* workarounds for valid case(s) and/or error to throw
* on invalid one(s).
*/
_type = ((ParameterizedType) superClass).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
}
public Type getType() { return _type; }
/**
* The only reason we define this method (and require implementation
* of <code>Comparable</code>) is to prevent constructing a
* reference without type information.
*/
@Override
public int compareTo(TypeReference<T> o) { return 0; }
// just need an implementation, not a good one... hence ^^^
}
Когда я делаю так, все норм:
TypeReference typeReference = new TypeReference<List<Foo>> { };
Так не работает, теряется информация о типе:
class Bar<T> {
public Bar() {
TypeReference typeReference = new TypeReference<List<T>> { };
}
}
Bar<Foo> br = new Bar<Foo>;
Я в курсе про очистку и все такое. Но если посмотреть в отладчике, то внутри TypeReference в первом случае будет такое:
_type = "java.util.List<Foo>"
Во втором:
_type = "T"
Не "Object", а "T".
Кто-нибудь может мне объяснить, что происходит в данном примере?