Extending Collector to handle a post-transform

[Remi Forax]

On 06/12/2013 01:39 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> Creating a new type that only solves half the problem has negative 
> value; the user still has to puzzle about the wildcards in the 
> full-blown Collector (which show up not only when R != I, but also in 
> parameters of combinators like groupingBy), and now has to learn TWO 
> library types, one of which's sole purpose is to unsuccessfully hide 
> the other.

The idea behind SimpleCollector is not to hide Collector, but to offer a 
simple abstraction for the case where the full blown Collector is not 
needed,
like Executor/ExecutorService.
I don't think you need a wildcard if you overload Stream.collect.

Rémi

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> On 6/11/2013 7:31 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
>> On 06/12/2013 01:24 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>>> Still don't get why you can not do:
>>>> interface SimpleCollector<T, R> extends Collector<T, R, R> {
>>>>    ...
>>>> }
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>>> Not all Collectors will have I=R.  Consider toStringBuilder, where
>>> I=StringBuilder and R=String.
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>> yes, for the ones without post-function like toList, you can use the
>> SimpleCollector, for the ones like toString you use the full blown
>> Collector.
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>> Rémi
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