Slice can support generic definition?

abchjb

Slice can support generic definition?

like this:
sequence<T> seqtype;

benoit

Hi,

Ice doesn't support generic definitions, not many languages support the concept of generics... What is your use case for generics?

Cheers,
Benoit.

abchjb

Benoit, thanks!

I use

sequence<string> seqstring;
["clr:generic:List"] sequence<seqstring> dataset;

to fetch the resultset(many oracle procedure return) from server!

but in client, I must convert the string list to entity string. I think, if slice support generic, I'll not define so many struct in slice, in addition, the client can receive the entity list directly.

excuse me for my poor english!

benoit

Hi,

Hmm, it's still not totally clear to me what you're trying to do. What is an "entity"? Perhaps you could show a bit more of your Slice types?

Did you consider using classes instead of structs? Your Slice methods could transfer sequence of objects if you don't want to re-define a sequence types for each type of object, for example:

class Entity {
};
sequence<Entity> EntitySeq;

class MyEntity extends Entity {
};
class MyEntity2 extends Entity {
};

Cheers,
Benoit.