Hmm. But how would users get the value of genericType except via the
same trick that GenericEntity uses - in which case why wouldn't they
just use that directly ? Normally type erasure removes the necessary
information so you can't get the generic type at runtime which is why
we added GenericEntity...
Marc.
On Aug 20, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> https://jsr311.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48
>
> GenericEntity should have an additional constructor so that rawType,
> type, and
> entity can be set by applications using reflection to construct
> entity objects.
>
> public GenericEntity(Class rawType, Type genericType, T entity)
> {
> this.rawType = rawType;
> this.genericType = genericType;
> this.entity = entity;
> }
>
> This would allow applications that are using reflection to set the
> generic type.
> It would be public as it doesn't make much sense to require extending.
>
>
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