array casting

[Mukesh Prajapati]

public class MainClass {
public static void main(String[] argv) {
int sizes[] = { 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 20 };
Object obj = sizes;
int x = ((int[]) obj)[2];

}
}

please explain me above red lines

[Suhas Mandrawadkar]

Line 1:Arrays are objects in Java. Hence they can be assigned to Object references.

Line 2: Object reference is type casted back to int array and element in [2] array position is assigned to int x.

[Rob Spoor]

Object obj = sizes;

Any array is also an object. That means that you can use widening to assign the array reference to an Object reference.

int x = ((int[]) obj)[2];

This looks complex for the beginning programmer, so let's split it up:
(int[]) obj casts the Object reference back to an int[] reference.
((int[]) obj) simply adds a pair of parentheses because of operator precedence. The result is now an int[].
((int[]) obj)[2] takes that int[], and then gets the third element of it.