In class-based programming, downcasting or type refinement is the act of casting a reference of a base class to one of its derived classes.
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In many programming languages, it is possible to check through type introspection to determine whether the type of the referenced object is indeed the one being cast to or a derived type of it, and thus issue an error if it is not the case.
Big data analytics. In other words, when a variable of the base class (parent class) has a value of the derived class (child class), downcasting is possible.
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Uses[edit]
Downcasting is useful when the type of the value referenced by the Parent variable is known and often is used when passing a value as a parameter. In the below example, the method objectToString takes an Object parameter which is assumed to be of type String.
In this approach, downcasting prevents the compiler from detecting a possible error and instead causes a run-time error.Downcasting myObject to String ('(String)myObject') was not possible at compile time because there are times that myObject is String type, so only at run time can we figure out whether the parameter passed in is logical. While we could also convert myObject to a compile-time String using the universal java.lang.Object.toString(), this would risk calling the default implementation of toString() where it was unhelpful or insecure, and exception handling could not prevent this.
In C++, run-time type checking is implemented through dynamic_cast. Compile-time downcasting is implemented by static_cast, but this operation performs no type check. If it is used improperly, it could produce undefined behavior.
Criticism[edit]
Some languages, such as OCaml, disallow downcasting altogether.[1]
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A popular example of a badly considered design is containers of top types,[citation needed] like the Java containers before Java generics were introduced, which requires downcasting of the contained objects so that they can be used again.
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References[edit]
- ^Vouillon, Jérôme; Rémy, Didier; Garrigue, Jacques (September 12, 2013). 'Objects in OCaml'. The OCaml system release 4.01 : Documentation and user's manual.
External links[edit]
- Downcasting is a Code Smell by Jeremy D. Miller
- A downcasting tragedy by Jimmy Bogard
- Prefer polymorphism over instanceof and downcasting by Bill Venners
- Downcasting in C# by Scott Lysle
- Upcasting, downcasting by Sinipull
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Support for Dynamic Type in v2.9.51 was a big improvement but it did introduce some inconsistencies. This maintenance release resolves most of those. It also restores the medium weight that was applied to certain labels prior to adding Dynamic Type support. Overall, text should be more readable and consistent throughout the app now
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This update also resolves a couple of storage related issues. A few of you ran into an issue that rendered Downcast's sandbox readonly. This was due to an undocumented behavior in iOS that required reinstalling the app to get past it. This has been worked around in this update and this should not happen again. Also, the storage numbers reported on Downcast's 'More' tab sometimes became wildly different from what iOS was reporting. This is fixed now and the numbers Downcast and iOS report should be mostly the same now.
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See the change log for the full list of changes.