Re: Warn About Raw Types?

From:
Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:18:27 +0200
Message-ID:
<ijeu3h$75b$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:06:35 +1300, /Lawrence D'Oliveiro/:

ldo@theon:java_try> cat test.java
class test
   {
     public static void main(String[] args)
       {
         Class s = String.class;
       } /*main*/
   }
ldo@theon:java_try> javac -Xlint test.java
ldo@theon:java_try> javac -Xlint:deprecation test.java
ldo@theon:java_try> javac -Xlint:all test.java
ldo@theon:java_try>

No warnings.

Any other suggestions?


Trying an example from the "lmgtfy" results [1] given in a reply by
markspace:

import java.util.*;
class test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList data = new ArrayList();
        data.add("hello");
        data.add("world");

        Iterator<String> it = data.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            String s = it.next();
            System.out.println(s);
        }
    }
}

I get:

% javac test.java
Note: test.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

% javac test.java -Xlint
test.java:5: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to add(E) as a member of the raw type java.util.ArrayList
    data.add("hello");
            ^
test.java:6: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to add(E) as a member of the raw type java.util.ArrayList
    data.add("world");
            ^
test.java:9: warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion
found : java.util.Iterator
required: java.util.Iterator<java.lang.String>
    Iterator<String> it = data.iterator();
                                       ^
3 warnings

It appears your exact example doesn't make javac emit "unchecked"
warning, while I can see such warning in my Eclipse IDE. It could
be related to the "harmless" nature of your example, as indicated
in the Arved Sandstrom's reply.

[1] http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0521.html

--
Stanimir

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