Re: Method chaining with generics

iksrazal@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Allow my code to explain:

        Bsc bsc = BscHelper.createBsc();
        SiteType siteType = BscHelper.createSiteType(id,name);
        bsc.getSite().add(siteType);

getSite() returns List. It was written without generics in mind.

The real error is an architectural design bug. You have a class Bsc which contains a list of sites, and you hand out that list to the public for manipulation. This seriously breaks encapsulation. Class Bsc should instead get a method addSite(), and do all the list handling internally.

/Thomas

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