Why does Popup return object?

[marekm294]

I just wonder why the ShowPopupAsync method returns an object?. In XamarinForms the Popup was generic. In our MAUI application, we added extension methods that automatically cast object?, so it's a bit more readable in our VMs, but I think it would be nice to have generic popups and not have to return object?. It's possible this has been discussed before, but I haven't found it, so please redirect me if so.

[TheCodeTraveler]

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[marekm294]

I hope you mean API for generic popup and not dummy casting extension methods :). Yeah, I could try to find time next week. I assume it should be same or simmilar to API in old Xamarin.Forms toolkit. I also think it should be compatible with current version right?

[pictos]

@marekm294 that was because of a limitation on Handlers and generic return types... There was no easy and/or general solution. If I recall the conversation that I had with the team at that time, they will look at how to improve that but isn't a very urgent task. So in order to deliver the Popup I choose to use object as the return type...

I would say that you can create your generic version of that, but you will need to add a new handler for each generic type (that was the reason I choose to not implement it in a generic way)

[CliffAgius]

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