Java: Is it possible to have a generic class that only takes types that can be compared?
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I wanted to do something along the lines of:
public class MyClass<T implements Comparable> {
....
}
But I can't, since, apparently, generics only accept restrictions with subclasses, and not interfaces.
It's important that I'm able to compare the types inside the class, so how should I go about doing this? Ideally I'd be able to keep the type safety of Generics and not have to convert the T's to Object as well, or just not write a lot of code overall. In other words, the simplest the better.
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