HashMap needs unchecked conversion - Generics warning - please help.

[martindavey]

This is a generics thing I believe.

I've simplified my class and method for clarity.

But I get the following warning on line 5:
Type safety: The expression of type HashMap needs unchecked conversion to conform to
HashMap<String,Object>


1: public class aClass {
2: private HashMap<String, Object> mapA;

// Other code, populates mapA

3: void doStuff ( String key ) {
4: HashMap<String, Object> mapB = null;
5: mapB = (HashMap) mapA.get(key);
6: }
7: }



Changing line 5 to:
mapB = (HashMap<String, Object>) mapA.get(key);

gives the warning:
Type safety: The cast from Object to HashMap<String,Object> is actually checking against the
erased type HashMap


Any ideas how to get rid of this warning without suppressing the warning?

Thanks, Martin.

 

[sedj]

This is not a J2EE issue - please post in the standard java forum269 .

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