On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:29 AM, kevin bourrillion <kev...@google.com> wrote:
> In order for this override to be possible, Multimap.asMap() must be defined
> to return Map<K, ? extends Collection<V>>, and ListMultimap.asMap() Map<K, ?
> extends List<V>>.

> But wildcards in return types of methods == user sadness.  You have to push
> that "? extends" all throughout your own code.

> Jared made this change once, and thankfully saw the damage it did to user
> code and backed out.

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Nick Partridge <nkp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hey,

> > Is it possible that asMap() for a ListMultimap could be changed to
> > return a Map<K, List<V>>, rather than the Map<K, Collection<V>> that
> > it returns now? It seems a bit inconsistent with the behaviour of get
> > (which does return a List).

> > Thanks,
> > Nick Partridge

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