Re: [hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH] Question on TikaBridge
>> Is that ok / preferable if I do these type checking at the
bridge creation time - in the BridgeProvider.
>
> Not sure. AS you say, the problem is if you define the type as Object. Probably quite
uncommon.
I'd enforce it. If a getter guarantees to provide a refined type, it
could as well make it explicit on the signature.
There is no (sane) reason to refuse fixing the signature, if you know
for sure what you're returning will be compatible. Worst case the
implementor will need to explicitly downcast, but when the CCE strikes
he'll easily see his mistake.
Well my point was that a method returning Blob|String (in Ceylon speak) would always be
valid. The only way to represent that in Java is to return Object. But that's probably
a rare use case.