由于Java泛型的实现,你不能有这样的代码:

public class GenSet<E> {
    private E a[];

    public GenSet() {
        a = new E[INITIAL_ARRAY_LENGTH]; // error: generic array creation
    }
}

如何在保持类型安全的同时实现这一点?

我在Java论坛上看到一个解决方案是这样的:

import java.lang.reflect.Array;

class Stack<T> {
    public Stack(Class<T> clazz, int capacity) {
        array = (T[])Array.newInstance(clazz, capacity);
    }

    private final T[] array;
}

但我真的不明白这是怎么回事。


当前回答

要扩展到更多维度,只需将[]和维度参数添加到newInstance() (T是类型参数,cls是Class<T>, d1到d5是整数):

T[] array = (T[])Array.newInstance(cls, d1);
T[][] array = (T[][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2);
T[][][] array = (T[][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3);
T[][][][] array = (T[][][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3, d4);
T[][][][][] array = (T[][][][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5);

详情请参阅Array.newInstance()。

其他回答

要扩展到更多维度,只需将[]和维度参数添加到newInstance() (T是类型参数,cls是Class<T>, d1到d5是整数):

T[] array = (T[])Array.newInstance(cls, d1);
T[][] array = (T[][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2);
T[][][] array = (T[][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3);
T[][][][] array = (T[][][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3, d4);
T[][][][][] array = (T[][][][][])Array.newInstance(cls, d1, d2, d3, d4, d5);

详情请参阅Array.newInstance()。

这在Effective Java第二版第5章(泛型)第25项中有介绍…更喜欢列表而不是数组

你的代码将会工作,尽管它会生成一个未检查的警告(你可以用下面的注释来抑制它):

@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})

然而,使用List而不是Array可能会更好。

在OpenJDK项目网站上有一个关于这个bug/特性的有趣讨论。

我必须反过来问一个问题:你的发电机组是“检查”还是“未检查”? 这是什么意思?

Checked: strong typing. GenSet knows explicitly what type of objects it contains (i.e. its constructor was explicitly called with a Class<E> argument, and methods will throw an exception when they are passed arguments that are not of type E. See Collections.checkedCollection. -> in that case, you should write: public class GenSet<E> { private E[] a; public GenSet(Class<E> c, int s) { // Use Array native method to create array // of a type only known at run time @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") final E[] a = (E[]) Array.newInstance(c, s); this.a = a; } E get(int i) { return a[i]; } } Unchecked: weak typing. No type checking is actually done on any of the objects passed as argument. -> in that case, you should write public class GenSet<E> { private Object[] a; public GenSet(int s) { a = new Object[s]; } E get(int i) { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") final E e = (E) a[i]; return e; } } Note that the component type of the array should be the erasure of the type parameter: public class GenSet<E extends Foo> { // E has an upper bound of Foo private Foo[] a; // E erases to Foo, so use Foo[] public GenSet(int s) { a = new Foo[s]; } ... }

所有这些都是由于Java中泛型的一个已知且刻意的弱点:它是使用擦除来实现的,因此“泛型”类不知道它们在运行时是用什么类型参数创建的,因此不能提供类型安全,除非实现了一些显式机制(类型检查)。

你可以使用一个类型转换:

public class GenSet<Item> {
    private Item[] a;

    public GenSet(int s) {
        a = (Item[]) new Object[s];
    }
}

在java中不允许创建通用数组,但是你可以这样做

class Stack<T> {
private final T[] array;
public Stack(int capacity) {
    array = (T[]) new Object[capacity];
 }
}