Function declaration problem.

[snooze-g]

Hi all.
Imagine that wi have an interface like this

Code:

public Interface MyInterface 
{

public void function1(Object a);



}

how i must write my function definition to be sure that the function1 doesn't change my Object a during his work.

Best Snooze-G.

[JavaBean]

What about this? Is it working?

Code:

public Interface MyInterface 
{

public void function1(final Object a);

}

[snooze-g]

No, of course it doesn't work, because Java work in referance system, for Java it mean that the referance of "Object a" can't be changed, not content but the referance.
For example.

Code:

public void function1(final Object a)
{
 1. a=new Object();
 2. a.text="new text";
}

It wil get a compiler time error on line 1, but not on line 2.

Best Snooze-G.
Thanks.

[JavaBean]

That is right. Then you will design your Object such a way that method can not change its content.

For example, define an interface which will only have the method you want to be called from this method and send this method the interface instead of actual object.

Of course the method can try casting the object to its actual type, but if you really want to protect that object then only way is to not sending that object obviously