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GeneralWhen to define interfaces Pin
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Paul Riley24-Sep-02 4:18
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Paul Riley24-Sep-02 4:12
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The usefulness of interfaces is best described (IMO) in terms of ArrayList.Sort().

An ArrayList can hold an array of pretty much any kind of object. So how does it sort them? What is the easiest way to define a function that could be sorting strings, objects, numbers, and so on?

You can't use ToString() because 10.ToString() == "10", 5.ToString() == "5". Thus 10.ToString() < 5.ToString().

So ArrayList.Sort calls IComparible.CompareTo(object obj) on each object to sort them. Thus if you want to do an ArrayList.Sort then all the objects in the ArrayList must implement the IComparable interface or it will not be able to cast it.

eg.
private class SortableObject : IComparable
{
// normal class code here

	public int CompareTo(object Item)
	{
// Comparison code here
	}
}
This way I can exactly define how I want one SortableObject to compare to another. ArrayList.Sort doesn't give a damn how I compare them, just that I define a method in the exact format public int CompareTo(object Item). It is a contract between my object and ArrayList.Sort saying I'll do the comparison, you do the sort.

Paul
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Stephane Rodriguez.24-Sep-02 4:54
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