[mono-android] Binding classes don't implement Java.Lang.IComparable

[Jeremy A. Kolb - ARA/NED]

That doesn't make sense to me.  IComparable.compareTo takes in an  Object not another type so it shouldn't care about generics.

-----Original Message-----
From: monodroid-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:monodroid-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:25 PM
To: Discussions related to Mono for Android
Subject: Re: [mono-android] Binding classes don't implement Java.Lang.IComparable

Hello,

That is a known limitation. The thing is, *generics don't really exist* in compiled java classes and we always need to explicitly supply which class the Comparable compares.

Hence the solution is, you add appropriate instantiated generic interface to Metadata.xml. This is an example:

<attr
path="/api/package[@name='android.content']/class[@name='ComponentName']/implements[@name='java.lang.Comparable']" 
name="name">java.lang.Comparable<android.content.ComponentName></attr>

Atsushi Eno

Jeremy A. Kolb - ARA/NED wrote:
>
> I'm trying to bind droidtext (http://code.google.com/p/droidtext) and 
> having a lot of trouble with classes not implementing 
> Java.Lang.IComparable.CompareTo. I can look at the java files and see 
> that the functions are implemented and public but bindings aren't 
> being generated for them. Has anyone seen this before? I don't see 
> anything in the logs about why this function isn't being picked up.
>
>
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