How do I correctly use generics?
- by ninjasense
I basically am making webrequests and recieving a JSON response. Depending on the request, I am parsing JSON request into objects I have created. The parsing is pretty much the same no matter what the object Im parsing into looks like. So I have a bunch of methods doing the same work only with different objects, I was wondering how I could accomplish this with generics? Here is an example
public static ArrayList<Contact> parseContacts(String responseData) {
ArrayList<Contact> Contacts = new ArrayList<Contact>();
try {
JSONArray jsonContacts = new JSONArray(responseData);
if (!jsonContacts.isNull(0)) {
for (int i = 0; i < jsonContacts.length(); i++) {
Contacts.add(new Contact(jsonContacts.getJSONObject(i)));
}
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
}
return Contacts;
}
