25 messages in org.ibiblio.lists.xom-interest[XOM-interest] Recursion
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From:John Cowan (cow@ccil.org)
Date:Mar 9, 2004 10:58:41 pm
List:org.ibiblio.lists.xom-interest

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

How much nesting would typically be required to expose this?

Good question: I have no clue. But if you have gobs of threads, there won't be nearly as much stack.

A way to avoid the API wart would be to check if the element to be copied is an actual Element or a subclass, and in the latter case, using sourceElement.getClass().newInstance() to call the argless constructor.

But the subclass may not have a no-args constructor.

Fair enough; Element doesn't, after all. You could use reflection to look for the constructor with a single String argument, though, and blow chunks if there isn't one.

-- John Cowan jco@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Heckler: "Go on, Al, tell 'em all you know. It won't take long." Al Smith: "I'll tell 'em all we *both* know. It won't take any longer."