Re: Error: uses unchecked or unsafe operations

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:42:21 GMT
Message-ID:
<hdQqg.130958$771.97355@edtnps89>
[post re-ordered]

"Alex" <alexander.webb@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1152107383.716338.151440@l70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Bart Cremers wrote:

Alex schreef:

Hi,

I am having a problem with the above mentioned error:
Coalesce.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations.

Now I know this is to do with generics but I am not entirely sure how
to solve the problem. Here is the code that is causing it:

List<Tree> trees = new ArrayList<Tree>();
for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
trees.add(coalescents.get(i).makeTree());
trees.get(i).calcLikelihood();
}
Collections.sort(trees); //this line is the problem

The problem is in the "sort" method. How can I make sure the compiler
knows that I will only be passing things of type Tree to the
Colections.sort method?

[...]

Just guessing here, but I think you'll need to make the Tree class
implement Comparable. An other option is to use the Collections.sort()
method which also taks a Comparator.

[...]

My Trees class does implement Comparable...so I'm not sure it's that.


Can you post the declaration of the Tree class? Something like:

public class Tree implements Comparable<Tree> {

Also, how do I specify a Comparator to use...?


Use this method:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#sort(java.util.List,%20java.util.Comparator)

    - Oliver

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