In this blog I will be explaining about the Generic keyword in java.
Generic keyword means more type safety. It
helps to write type- safe collection.The use of generic is of utter importance.
Before the generic was used, if you are trying to create the arraylist ,then you
just need to write -:
ArrayList list=new ArrayList();
A Digrammatic Representation of ArrayList
Before Generic
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In this arraylist, you can save object of
class Cat, Dog, Fish, Lion. The list becomes the mixture of objects of
diiferent class and it is difficult to perform any operation on the list. So,
the introduction of generic has included an element <E > that we have to define
while creating arraylist , like
The Syntax of creating ArrayList is-:
ArrayList<E> list1= new ArrayList<E>();
AFTER GENERIC
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So, above arraylist will be written as-:
ArrayList <CAT> list=new ArrayList<CAT>() ;
In this arraylist, Objects of only Cat class will be saved and now you can
perform various operations on it. I hope this article was useful to you and
thank you for reading it.