ClassCastException

[jose chiramal]

Why do I get this exception :

public static void main (String args[])
{
Set st2 = (Set) new TreeSet();
st2.add(new Integer(1));
}

java.lang.ClassCastException
at Basic.TreeSet.main(TreeSet.java)
Exception in thread "main"

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

From the stack trace, I see that this method is in a class called "TreeSet". So in main(), you're constructing an instance of this containing class, not the java.util.TreeSet you were expecting. Since Basic.TreeSet doesn't implement Set, boom. A ClassCastException.

It's always a bad idea to name a class after a class that appears in the core Java APIs!

[Joanne Neal]

It appears that code is in a file called TreeSet.java, so presumably it contains a TreeSet class. Does that class implement the Set interface ? If not, the you can't cast it to a Set (and if it did then you wouldn't need to cast it).

[Xiong Neng]

I suppose the TreeSet is not the java.util.TreeSet.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Xiong Neng, welcome to JavaRanch