Defining Generics of subclassed objects?

[Raymond Holguin]

I have a situation that I can't seem to figured out.

ClassA
ClassB extends ClassA

I want to do the following but I cannot.

Set<ClassA> foo;
Set<ClassB> = Set<ClassA>;

I get
Type mismatch: cannot convert from java.util.Set<ClassA> to java.util.Set<ClassB>

I tried doing this and it works....but I cannot Iterate over the Set so its useless to me
Set<ClassA> foo;
Set<? extends ClassA> = Set<ClassA>;
Type mismatch: cannot convert from element type capture#3-of ? extends ClassA to ClassB

how can I accomplish this if possible?? im tryign to migrate an app from java 1.4 to java6 and this is road blocking me.

[Hunter McMillen]

You are trying to convert from the subclass to the superclass, that doesn't work in Java.

Change it to:
Set<ClassA> mySet = Set<ClassB>;

That doesn't work either as I just realized. Sorry.

Hunter

[Raymond Holguin]

thanks for your help, but after further review of the code i realized i misunderstood the situation. the problem is resolved now.

[David Newton]

(It's good to follow up with the solution so that other readers, or people that land here via search result, know what the issue was.)

[Raymond Holguin]

yes your correct, my apologies.

Turns out
Set<ClassA> foo;
Set<ClassB> = foo;

was never the situation...foo actually was Set<ClassB> the whole time.
Set<ClassB> foo;
Set<ClassB> = foo;

which is valid of course!!

I realized this after digging through the hibernate mapping for file this class. The reason why i got so confused in the place was because In the actual code ClassA and ClassB have the same name but different package locations AND you have 2 classes w/ the same name where one extend off the other LOL...thus i got confused which was which.