[PIVOT-324] WTKXSerializer get method enhancement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: wtk-wtkx
• Assignee: Gregory K. Brown
• Reporter: Dmitry Mamonov
• Created: 09/Oct/09 12:29
• Updated: 09/Oct/09 16:00
• Resolved: 09/Oct/09 16:00

Description

Method get() of class WTKXSerializer returns value of type Object, you see:
http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/1.3/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtkx/WTKXSerializer.html#get(java.lang.String)

As demostrated in documentation it cause code like this: (http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/1.3/tutorials/push_buttons.html)
private PushButton pushButton = null;
...
pushButton = (PushButton)wtkxSerializer.get("pushButton");

In an alternative way, get() method may be declared as:
<T> T get(String key)

{ //implementation }

This way client code will be just:
pushButton = wtkxSerializer.get("pushButton");

so the type-case will be implicit. This feature is widely used in HtmlUnit framework and I find it quite neat.
May be it coult be adopted to pivot project