Re: correct usage for @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:50:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<f2ee7ca8-fe63-41eb-b088-f315d6abc8c8@h27g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
Thufir wrote:

I'm just going through and ensuring compilation with -Xlint and find
myself assuming that the cast will work -- which it currently does.
Should it be wrapped in a try/get? A more sophisticated use of
generics?


Stop using raw types, and use interfaces in preference to concrete
types.

package view;

import database.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class BeatlesLoader {

    private Logger logger =


Make 'logger' a 'final' variable.

Logger.getLogger(view.BeatlesLoader.class.getName());
    private ParametersBean mp = new ParametersBean();


'mp' should probably be 'final', too.

    public BeatlesLoader() {
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "BeatlesLoader...");
    }


There are subtleties to proper formats for log messages.

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")


As pointed out upthread, move the suppression to the declaration where
it matters, which in your case is nowhere once you fix your use of raw
types.

    private List<Beatle> populateBeatles() {
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "populateBeatles...");
        database.DatabaseBean database = new database.DatabaseB=

ean();

You have an 'import' for th 'database' package, so you could use just
simple class names.

        ArrayList<ArrayList<String>> table = database.getTable(=

);

This should be 'List <List <String>> table ...'

        List<Beatle> beatles = new ArrayList<Beatle>();
        for (ArrayList record : table) {


    for ( List <String> record : table )

Don't use raw types.

            Beatle beatle = new Beatle(record);
            beatles.add(beatle);
        }
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "...populateBeatles" +
beatles.toString());
        return beatles;
    }

    public List<Beatle> getBeatles() {
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "getBeatles...");
        List<Beatle> beatles = populateBeatles();
        logger.log(Level.INFO, "...getBeatles" + beatles.toString=

());

        return beatles;
    }

}


Don't use raw types, then you won't need
'@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")'.

--
Lew

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