I'm using the Chain of Responsibility design-pattern in Java. The chain as a whole represents a request for objects of certain types. Each "Handler" in the chain is responsible to handle the requested units of 1 type.
All requests are handled in essentially the same way so I tried making the "Handler"-class generic.
So in the Handle-class I need a method like this (the handling itself is simplified because it would only obfuscate my problem):
public class Handler{
int required;
Handler> next;
public void handle(Object O){
if(o instanceof T){
required --;
}else{
next.handle(o);
}
}
}
The problem is that an instanceof like this is impossible. Because the type T isn't explicitly stored during run time (or that's what I understood during my research on the internet). So my question is: what is the best alternative?
解决方案
Implement handlers using generics by using a constructor parameter to define the class the handler supports:
public class Handler {
private int required;
private Handler> next;
private Class extends T> c;
public Handler(Class extends T> c) {
this.c = c;
}
public void handle(Object o) {
if (c.isInstance(o)) {
required--;
} else {
next.handle(o);
}
}
// ...
}