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java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to mycom.lang.MyString

 
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My program has this run time error:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to mycom.lang.MyString
at myproj.client.swing.util.MyStringUtil$MapComparable.compare(MyStringUtil.java:25)


MyString is a third party class which I don't have the source code. It has the toString() method.
MyStringUtil is written by me to process MyString.
MyComboBox should accept both Map<String, String> and Map<String, MyString> as parameters.
How to rewrite my program?
 
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Have two constructors... Let one get Map<String,String> and the other Map<String,MyString>
 
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John Jai wrote:Have two constructors... Let one get Map<String,String> and the other Map<String,MyString>



It is harder than it looks - because of type erasure of the generic type, the two methods are considered the same:
Duplicate method MyComboBox(Map<String,MyString>) in type MyComboBox client/swing/components MyComboBox.java line 62
Duplicate method MyComboBox(Map<String,String>) in type MyComboBox client/swing/components MyComboBox.java line 69
 
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albert kao wrote:It is harder than it looks - because of type erasure of the generic type, the two methods are considered the same



What generic type? There isn't any such thing in your code.
 
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albert kao wrote:It is harder than it looks - because of type erasure of the generic type, the two methods are considered the same



What generic type? There isn't any such thing in your code.



I refer to the java.util.Map generic type.
Adding another constructor with Map as the parameter will result in compile error which I had posted.
 
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albert kao wrote:MyString is a third party class which I don't have the source code. It has the toString() method.
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MyComboBox should accept both Map<String, String> and Map<String, MyString> as parameters.


Why? Does your ComboBox update the MyString?

How to rewrite my program?


Well if the answer to my question above is 'no', I'd just write a method that takes a Map<String, MyString> and converts it to a Map<String, String>; or, if you want to be really clever, write a class that takes a Map<String, MyString> and presents it as a Map<String, String>. Then you don't have to update your MyComboBox at all (or hardly).

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Or just work with Map<String, Object>. You don't say what you are doing with this MyString thing; if you're only using its toString() method then using it as an Object would be fine.
 
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Paul Clapham wrote:Or just work with Map<String, Object>.


I guess it would be worth knowing if MyString implements CharSequence. If so, MyComboBox could possibly take a Map<String, ? extends CharSequence> without any other modification required. But it really depends on what it does.

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Winston Gutkowski wrote:

albert kao wrote:MyString is a third party class which I don't have the source code. It has the toString() method.
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MyComboBox should accept both Map<String, String> and Map<String, MyString> as parameters
Why? Does your ComboBox update the MyString?

...
Winston



No, ComboBox does not update the MyString.
Now I create MyComboBox2 so that both map1 & map2 are supported:

My goal is to rewrite MyComboBox so that both map1 & map2 are supported because MyComboBox occur in a lot of source codes already.
These are the current sample usage, which will cause casting exception.
Is it possible to rewrite MyComboBox so that the following code will work?


 
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Then based on what I've seen there, your best choice is to convert your Map<String, MyString> objects to Map<String, String> objects. This would take about six lines of code, including the line which converts a MyString to a String via the toString() method.
 
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[quote=Winston Gutkowski
I guess it would be worth knowing if MyString implements CharSequence. If so, MyComboBox could possibly take a Map<String, ? extends CharSequence> without any other modification required. But it really depends on what it does.

Winston



MyString does not implement CharSequence.
 
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albert kao wrote:MyString does not implement CharSequence.


Hmmm. Seems rather odd, since String does. Is it, in fact, a String at all; or just a badly-named class that some "software" company (or Computer Science professor) lobbed over the wall at you? If so, I pity you.

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Paul Clapham wrote:Then based on what I've seen there, your best choice is to convert your Map<String, MyString> objects to Map<String, String> objects. This would take about six lines of code, including the line which converts a MyString to a String via the toString() method.


Where does the conversion occur?
At the MyComboBox or MyStringUtil or both?
 
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