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    <p>Id' like to create a list of data that will be passed from method to method, however I can't use a struct because the data that will be contained in this list will vary depending on the input.</p> <p>For example</p> <pre><code>if (x == 1) { a = 1 b = true c = 42 d = "hello" } if (x == 2) { a = 2 b = 'g' c = "sup" } </code></pre> <p>I believe my options are thus:</p> <ol> <li>Create an array or List of strings, and cast the data back to what it originally was from strings. This is messy and could lead to bugs of uninterpretable input, though wouldn't be so bad since it'd all be detected at runtime.</li> <li>Create a struct for each possibility - Is this even good practice?</li> <li>Somehow use generics. From what I know, while generics are type-safe yet not type-strict, they must be cast to types before being used. Eg if I wanted a List of items here, I'd need to cast them to strings much like would happen with solution 1, making this useless.</li> </ol> <p>My question then, is which of these options is the best? Or is there an alternate option using some sort of generic type I don't know about? The number of possible variables in each case may change, as with their types. I'd like to be able to return a single List or Array to the calling method, so that it may appropriately deal with the result. It will know how to deal with each group of data based on the value of a, as it will be the 'action choice' identifier. I'm also aware that casting them to objects and back each time is very intensive so I'd rather avoid that.</p> <p>This is probably pretty simple but it has me stumped...</p>
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    1. COIn order to give a little more information, Basically this is attempting to, depending on the choice of the user, interpret various data from an input string. If they say one thing, I need to check for that data and then grab it, making a list of those data and their types (various things are derived from this information). The problem is that I'd like to make it expandable, so I can always add things without having to adhere to a strict structure, and I shouldn't have to recast everything upon usage. I like the ArrayList suggestion, as well as the refactoring one. I'll try and revise it.
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