Question

I have the following code

public abstract class Event {
    public void fire(Object... args) {
        // tell the event handler that if there are free resources it should call 
        // doEventStuff(args)
    }

    // this is not correct, but I basically want to be able to define a generic 
    // return type and be able to pass generic arguments. (T... args) would also 
    // be ok
    public abstract <T, V> V doEventStuff(T args);
}

public class A extends Event {
   // This is what I want to do
   @Overide
   public String doEventStuff(String str) {
      if(str == "foo") { 
         return "bar";
      } else {
         return "fail";
      }
   }
}

somewhere() {
  EventHandler eh = new EventHandler();
  Event a = new A();
  eh.add(a);
  System.out.println(a.fire("foo")); //output is bar
}

However I don’t know how to do this, as I cannot override doEventStuff with something specific.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

It’s not really clear what you’re trying to do, but perhaps you just need to make Event itself generic:

public abstract class Event<T, V>
{
    public abstract V doEventStuff(T args);
}

public class A extends Event<String, String>
{
    @Override public String doEventStuff(String str)
    {
        ...
    }
}