In C# you can define delegates anonymously (even though they are nothing more than syntactic sugar). For example, I can do this:
public string DoSomething(Func<string, string> someDelegate)
{
// Do something involving someDelegate(string s)
}
DoSomething(delegate(string s){ return s += "asd"; });
DoSomething(delegate(string s){ return s.Reverse(); });
Is it possible to pass code like this in Java? I'm using the processing framework, which has a quite old version of Java (it doesn't have generics).
Pre Java 8:
The closest Java has to delegates are single method interfaces. You could use an anonymous inner class.
interface StringFunc {
String func(String s);
}
void doSomething(StringFunc funk) {
System.out.println(funk.func("whatever"));
}
doSomething(new StringFunc() {
public String func(String s) {
return s + "asd";
}
});
doSomething(new StringFunc() {
public String func(String s) {
return new StringBuffer(s).reverse().toString();
}
});
Java 8 and above:
Java 8 adds lambda expressions to the language.
doSomething((t) -> t + "asd");
doSomething((t) -> new StringBuilder(t).reverse().toString());
Not exactly like this but Java has something similar.
It's called anonymous inner classes.
Let me give you an example:
DoSomething(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
// "delegate" body
}
});
It's a little more verbose and requires an interface to implement,
but other than that it's pretty much the same thing
Your example would look like this in Java, using anomymous inner classes:
interface Func {
String execute(String s);
}
public String doSomething(Func someDelegate) {
// Do something involving someDelegate.execute(String s)
}
doSomething(new Func() { public String execute(String s) { return s + "asd"; } });
doSomething(new Func() { public String execute(String s) { return new StringBuilder(s).reverse().toString(); } } });
Is it possible to pass code like this
in Java? I'm using the processing
framework, which has a quite old
version of Java (it doesn't have
generics).
Since the question asked about the Processing-specific answer, there is no direct equivalent. But Processing uses the Java 1.4 language level, and Java 1.1 introduced anonymous inner classes, which are a rough approximation.
For example :
public class Delegate
{
interface Func
{
void execute(String s);
}
public static void doSomething(Func someDelegate) {
someDelegate.execute("123");
}
public static void main(String [] args)
{
Func someFuncImplementation = new Func()
{
@Override
public void execute(String s) {
System.out.println("Bla Bla :" + s);
}
};
Func someOtherFuncImplementation = new Func()
{
@Override
public void execute(String s) {
System.out.println("Foo Bar:" + s);
}
};
doSomething(someFuncImplementation);
doSomething(someOtherFuncImplementation);
}
}
Output :
Bla Bla :123
Foo Bar:123
You have all forgotten here that a C# delegate first of all - is thread safe.
These examples are just for a single thread App..
Most of the contemporary Apps are written on multithreaded concept..
So no one answer is the answer.
There is not an equivalent in Java