Re: [Geotools-devel] ExpressionAbstract

[Cory H. <ch...@re...>]

Justin Deoliveira wrote:

>Hmmmm, well the whole reason for the second method is to make sure that
>implementations do not make assumptions about what the return value
>should look like. So all the work should really be done in
>evaluate(Object), and then just converted on the fly by
>evaluate(Object,Class). Making the method final enforces this nicley :).
>
>Can you give a more concrete example of what you need to do. If need be
>we can break out a protected methods call eval( Object, Class ), which
>does what evaluate( Object, Class ) does now, and then allow the latter
>to be overridden by subclasses.
>  
>
Meh.... on second thought it makes more sense to simply have 2 different 
expressions rather than one that returns completely different objects 
depending on the context. 

Ramble, ramble...