It's been a while since I updated anything on the SennMagic project, but here it is!
Version 3.5 has some minor changes and additions in existing classes (DFCUtils, GeneralUtils) but most importantly:
The 'chainable' collections api!
Don't you just hate it when you are instantiating objects and you have to pass a Collection instance and you can't do it in one line because the collection needs one or more items in it, like this:
That's all in the past with the chainable collections api!
The chainable collections api has extra methods (with very recognizable, straightforward names) to add/remove/replace items in the collections, but instead of the normal return value, it returns the collection itself. This enables you to 'chain' actions like this:
I have created implementations for the most commonly used collections (+maps):
Get it while it's still hot!
Bart
Version 3.5 has some minor changes and additions in existing classes (DFCUtils, GeneralUtils) but most importantly:
The 'chainable' collections api!
Don't you just hate it when you are instantiating objects and you have to pass a Collection instance and you can't do it in one line because the collection needs one or more items in it, like this:
car.setPassengers(new ArrayList<Passenger>()); // you can only add an empty list
//so you have to do:
List<Passenger> passengers = new ArrayList<Passenger>();
passengers.add(new Passenger("Bart"));
car.setPassengers(passengers);
That's all in the past with the chainable collections api!
The chainable collections api has extra methods (with very recognizable, straightforward names) to add/remove/replace items in the collections, but instead of the normal return value, it returns the collection itself. This enables you to 'chain' actions like this:
//same as previous example:
car.setPassengers(new ChainableArrayList<Passenger>().put(new Passenger("Bart")));
I have created implementations for the most commonly used collections (+maps):
- ChainableList extends List
- ChainableArrayList extends ArrayList implements ChainableList
- ChainableLinkedList extends LinkedList implements ChainableList
- ChainableMap extends Map
- ChainableHashMap extends HashMap implements ChainableMap
- ChainableLinkedHashMap extends LinkedHashMap implements ChainableMap
- ChainableTreeMap extends TreeMap implements ChainableMap
- ChainableQueue extends Queue
- ChainablePriorityQueue extends PriorityQueue implements ChainableQueue
- ChainableSet extends Set
- ChainableHashSet extends HashSet implements ChainableSet
- ChainableLinkedHashSet extends LinkedHashSet implements ChainableSet
- ChainableTreeSet extends TreeSet implements ChainableSet
Get it while it's still hot!
Bart
