Support for multiple data types within a relationship

[tmtrademarked]

Let's imagine that I had a relationship which could contain multiple types of data. For instance, consider the following example:

"choices": {
       "links": {
         "self": "/api/orders/42/relationships/choices",
         "related": "/api/orders/42/choices"
       },
       "data": [
         {
           "type": "recipes",
           "id": "1"
         },
         {
           "type": "wines",
           "id": "2"
         },
         {
           "type": "recipes",
           "id": "3"
         },
         {
           "type": "wines",
           "id": "4"
         },
         {
           "type": "recipes",
           "id": "5"
         },
         {
           "type": "wines",
           "id": "6"
         }
       ]
}

If all of these were Recipes, I could represent this in Java with HasMany choices. But since they're mixed, is the only way to handle this HasMany and cast check? Or is there a more graceful way to support this use case?

[kamikat]

As far as I know, there is no way but to cast every Resource you get from a HasMany<Resource> instance in Java.

But you can workaround that in specific cases. For example, have Choice class extends Resource and Wine and Recipe extends Choice. Then, perform some OOP magic in Choice.