What's the advantage of making a class generic as oppose to just make the method generic? Under which circumstance would you want to use a generic class?
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1https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77632/what-is-cool-about-generics-why-use-them – Oct 05 '17 at 02:01
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With generic class, you can have generic properties as well. Which you can use together with generic methods you have on your generic class.
For code reusability. You don't want to call again the same generic method on different non-generic class, although you can do that, but not a good practice though. You want to put all your related generic methods under generic class.
- With generic class, what you pass on the type of entity in class, can be used by all generic methods and generic properties. With only generic method, you cannot re-use that, unlike with a generic class.
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