How do I remove the warning from a EasyMock.anyObject(List.class) call

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Drahakar picture Drahakar · Oct 6, 2010 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

Compiler can't stop complaining with this call : 

EasyMock.anyObject(List.class)

I tried to specify list's type

EasyMock.anyObject(List<MyType>.class)

but it doesn't seems to be an option (anyway, it is stupid since java will erase the type during the compilation)

Is there a clean way (@SuppressWarning is not a clean way IMO) to remove this warning?

Thank you

Answer

Henri Tremblay picture Henri Tremblay · Oct 7, 2010

It's not possible. I'll call it a generic limitation. Sadly it's not always possible to remove a warning for some perfectly normal usage (like using the class of a generic class).

However, with EasyMock you can do the following:

EasyMock.<List<MyType>> anyObject()

which will do the same thing but without warning. The anyObject you used exist because it's a bit more readable and allows static imports.

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