RE: Header and Detail

The other option is to subclass Vector and provide your own get routine, like 
so:

public class FieldList extends Vector
{
    public Field fieldAt(int i)
    {
        return (Field) elementAt(i);
    }
}

This way, you hide the casting within the FieldList object.  Then you can say:

FieldList fields = new FieldList();
fields.addElement(new Field());
(...)

Field field = fields.fieldAt(i);

Joe

P.S. Note, you can also add a method addField to make sure that you always add 
the right kind of object.  However, if you're really afraid of the class having 
the wrong type of object added, you'd be better off doing it the way you did, 
by containing a Vector inside your FieldList class and then only exposing the 
methods you need.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:53:59 -0600

>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

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