Re: Create a JAVA Client/Server app in 5 Minutes

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<b62b427c-6e13-428b-9ba0-595702db4cf3@f21g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>
Donkey Hottie wrote:

What warning?

        private List<String> list = new ArrayList() ;
        list.add(new HashMap<String, Integer>());

gives me a warning, no matter what I use after "new" in the declaration o=

f

"list".

Can you give me an example where the exact type of "new ArrayList()" is
needed?

I can get only warnings, if I declare that ArrayList wrong:

        private List<String> list = new ArrayList<Map<String, I=

nteger>>() ;

But new ArrayList() does not fail. And all that java cares is the type of
"list" afterwards. IMHO. (I may be wrong).


Given:
package eegee;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class GenWarning
{
  private List<String> list = new ArrayList(); // line 8

  public List<String> getList()
  {
    return this.list;
  }

  public static void main( String [] args )
  {
    GenWarning gw = new GenWarning();
    gw.getList().add( "foo" );
    System.out.println( gw.getList() );
  }
}

I get:

$ javac -d ../build eegee/GenWarning.java
Note: eegee\GenWarning.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

$ javac -d ../build -Xlint:unchecked eegee/GenWarning.java
eegee\GenWarning.java:8: warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion
found : java.util.ArrayList
required: java.util.List<java.lang.String>
    private List<String> list = new ArrayList();
                                ^
1 warning

Those warnings.

--
Lew

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