I would like to generically add numbers in java. I'm running into difficulty because the Numbers class doesn't really support what I want to do. What I've tried so far is this:
public class Summer {
public E sumValue(List objectsToSum) {
E total = (E) new Object();
for (E number : objectsToSum){
total += number;
}
return null;
}
Obviously this will not work. How can I go about correcting this code so I could be given a list of or or whatever and return the sum?
解决方案
In order to calculate a sum generically, you need to provide two actions:
A way to sum zero items
A way to sum two items
In Java, you do it through an interface. Here is a complete example:
import java.util.*;
interface adder {
T zero(); // Adding zero items
T add(T lhs, T rhs); // Adding two items
}
class CalcSum {
// This is your method; it takes an adder now
public T sumValue(List list, adder adder) {
T total = adder.zero();
for (T n : list){
total = adder.add(total, n);
}
return total;
}
}
public class sum {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List list = new ArrayList();
list.add(1);
list.add(2);
list.add(4);
list.add(8);
CalcSum calc = new CalcSum();
// This is how you supply an implementation for integers
// through an anonymous implementation of an interface:
Integer total = calc.sumValue(list, new adder() {
public Integer add(Integer a, Integer b) {
return a+b;
}
public Integer zero() {
return 0;
}
});
System.out.println(total);
}
}