Yet another generics question: Needs unchecked conversion to conform to ...

From:
"Michel T." <machintruc@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
29 Dec 2006 13:31:35 -0800
Message-ID:
<1167427895.061406.211710@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
I spent a lot of time massaging the code below to avoid a warning,
without success.

I pasted a sample class and inner classes that shows what I want to do.
I wrote two versions of a factory method: one that does not generate
any warnings, and the other generates one.
The return type of the second method is defined like this:

 BeanFactory<Bean> createFactory2(String className){
   ...
 }

The returned BeanFactory is also parametized, and this is where my
problem lies. Can anyone suggest how to avoid the warning, besides
adding a @suppresswarning annotation?

public class Generics {

  public BeanFactory createFactory1(String beanClass)
  throws Exception{

    Class<?> bc = Class.forName(beanClass);

    Class<? extends BeanFactory> bfc =
      bc.asSubclass(BeanFactory.class);

    Constructor<? extends BeanFactory> cstr =
      bfc.getConstructor(new Class[]{});

    return cstr.newInstance(new Object[]{});
  }

  public BeanFactory<Bean> createFactory2(String beanClass)
  throws Exception{

    Class<?> bc = Class.forName(beanClass);

    Class<? extends BeanFactory> bfc =
      bc.asSubclass(BeanFactory.class);

    Constructor<? extends BeanFactory> cstr =
      bfc.getConstructor(new Class[]{});

    // The following line causes the warning:
    return cstr.newInstance(new Object[]{});
  }

  public class BeanFactory<T extends Bean>{
  }

  public class Bean{
  }
}

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