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Lab 6 - Genericaa

This document discusses generic classes and methods in Java. It provides examples of declaring generic types like MyPair<String, Integer> and using generic types in classes, methods, and arrays. The document also discusses the differences between using Object, generic types, and raw generic types when implementing a Map-like class called MyPair. Specifically, it instructs the reader to implement MyPair using both Object and generic types, and test each implementation to demonstrate the advantages of generic types over Object and parameterized types over raw generic types.

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Lab 6 - Genericaa

This document discusses generic classes and methods in Java. It provides examples of declaring generic types like MyPair<String, Integer> and using generic types in classes, methods, and arrays. The document also discusses the differences between using Object, generic types, and raw generic types when implementing a Map-like class called MyPair. Specifically, it instructs the reader to implement MyPair using both Object and generic types, and test each implementation to demonstrate the advantages of generic types over Object and parameterized types over raw generic types.

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Object-Oriented programming

Lab #6 – Generic classes and methods

I. Get familiar with generic types


Given the following class
public class MyPair<T, U> {
public final T Fst;
public final U Snd;

public MyPair(T fst, U snd) {


this.Fst = fst;
this.Snd = snd;
}

public String toString() {


return "(" + Fst + ", " + Snd + ")";
}
}

a. In a new source file, write a JAVA program that includes this declaration and also a class with an
empty Main method. Compile it to check that the program is well-formed.
b. Declare a variable of type MyPair<String, Integer> and create some values, for
instance new MyPair<String, Integer>("Anders", 13), and assign them to the
variable.
c. Declare a variable of type MyPair<String, Double>. Create a value such as new
MyPair<String, Double>("Phoenix", 39.7) and assign it to the variable.
d. Can you assign a value of type MyPair<String, Double> to a variable of type
MyPair<String, Integer>? Should this be allowed?
e. Declare a variable grades of type MyPair<String, Integer>[], create an array of length
5 with element type MyPair and assign it to the variable. Create a few MyPairs and store
them into grades[0], grades[1] and grades[2].
f. Use the foreach statement to iterate over grades and print all its elements. What are the
values of those array elements you did not assign anything to?
g. Declare a variable appointment of type
MyPair<MyPair<Integer, Integer>, String>
and create a value of this type and assign it to the variable.
What is the type of appointment.Fst.Snd? This shows that a type argument may itself be
a constructed type.
h. Declare a method Swap() in MyPair<T, U> that returns a new value of type MyPair in
which the components have been swapped.
II. Differences between Object, generic and generic raw types
In JAVA, there is a Map data structure that helps developers to link a key to a value.
Read about Map in
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/map-interface-java-examples/
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-util-hashmap-in-java/
- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_hashmap_class.htm

As we want to reimplement the Map class, implement a class named MyMap to manage (store
and get back) any object by its ID.
- User can put an object obj to a Map m by calling
m.put(obj.getID(), obj);

- User can get back an object from the map m by invoking


m.get(id);

1. Implement the MyMap in two different ways:


a. Use Object as the type for both the Key and the Value parameters of the put and get
methods
b. Use generic type

2. With your implementations, write a main function to


a. Test these two implementations
b. To show advantage of generic type over Object
c. To show advantage of parameterized type over generic raw type

Reference: textbook “Java How to Program”, chapter 20

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