Why does Kotlin for Android developers (book) need to add parseList again?

Question

I know that Anko provides the functions parseSingle, parseOpt and parseList, I don’t understand why the Android Developers code (book) should again develop parseList.

Could you tell me? Thank you

https://github.com/antoniolg/Kotlin-for-Android-Developers/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/antonioleiva/weatherapp/data/db/ForecastDb.kt

override fun requestForecastByZipCode(zipCode: Long, date: Long) = forecastDbHelper.use {

        val dailyRequest = "${DayForecastTable.CITY_ID} = ? AND ${DayForecastTable.DATE} >= ?"
        val dailyForecast = select(DayForecastTable.NAME)
                .whereSimple(dailyRequest, zipCode.toString(), date.toString())
                .parseList { DayForecast(HashMap(it)) }

}

https://github.com/antoniolg/Kotlin-for-Android-Developers/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/antonioleiva/weatherapp/extensions/DatabaseExtensions.kt

fun <T : Any> SelectQueryBuilder.parseList(parser: (Map<String, Any?>) -> T): List<T> =
        parseList(object : MapRowParser<T> {
            override fun parseRow(columns: Map<String, Any?>): T = parser(columns)
})

Answer 1

Anko parseList a MapRowParser, . . Anko

.parseList { mapRowParser { DayForecast(HashMap(it)) } }

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fun <T> mapRowParser(parser: (Map<String, Any?>) -> T): MapRowParser<T> = 
    object : MapRowParser<T> {
        override fun parseRow(columns: Map<String, Any?>): T = parser(columns)
    }

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