RE: Header and Detail

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, makes a lot of sense.  Whenever I cast something I feel like I'm
breaking a rule.  And probably am.

By typed vectors I assume you mean something like:

Vector myClass = new MyClass() (or is it the other way.. it's friday, my
brain is oo'd out).

That would automatically create a vector of MyClass() objects.  I would like
to see the same thing.

As for using my own class instead of a vector, that means I need to make my
own size() and get() methods for it, correct?  That's what I've been doing.
For example:

  public int size()
  {
     return this.myList.size();
  }

Thanks again.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@plutabrothers.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:05 PM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Header and Detail
> 
> 
> It depends on the access.  If you access by ordinal position, 
> then leaving something a Vector is "okay", except that you 
> always have to cast it.  I usually start with Vectors for 
> those kind of collections, and then eventually replace the 
> Vectors with my own class (I keep waiting for Java to support 
> typed Vectors as an integral part of the language).
> 
> So, iscmControlList is probably okay to leave as a Vector for 
> now.  However, what iscmControlList returns (let's call it 
> FieldRow) is a collection of FieldDefinitions that you have 
> to access by key.  This is definitely NOT a Vector.  In fact, 
> you may want to consider subclassing Hashtable instead of 
> Vector, because Hashtables provide keyed access.  In any 
> case, the code that you have in FieldFormatter that pulls an 
> individual FieldDefinition out of a FieldRow definitely has 
> no business in FieldFormatter, it should instead be a method 
> in FieldRow.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:18:51 -0600
> 
> >sendID =iscmControlList.getRecord(i).getField("SND_ID").data();
> 
> Using this (which makes sense) my getRecord method for 
> icsmControlList will
> have to return something other than a vector object, right?  
> I'd have to
> make my own class (FieldRow or something) that it would 
> return.  Then write
> my own getField method for the FieldRow class.
> 
> But in this case, FieldRow is nothing more than a vector (or 
> fields).  So is
> there an advatange to this, or is this just not right to begin with?
> 
> (My comparable code)
> sendID =
> FieldListFormatter.getField((Vector)icsmControlList.get(i),"SN
> D_ID").data;
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