java 中list类型未知,列表< List<？>>和List< List>是java中不兼容的类型...

I did not get this code to compile either way:

List a = new ArrayList();

List> b = new ArrayList();

a = b; // incompatible types

b = a; // incompatible types

It seems that java does not consider List and List> to be the same type when it comes to generics.

Why is that? And is there some nice way out?

Context

There is a library function with following signature: public Set> getSubTypesOf(final Class type). This works fine for simple types passed as argument but in case of generics the result is not parametrized with wildcard causing javac to complain about raw type. I would like to propagate the result to the rest of my application as Set>> but simple cast does not work as I expect.

EDIT: Solution

Thanks for the answers, here is how I get it working in the end:

@SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes", "unchecked"})

private static Set>> factoryTypes() {

return (Set) new Reflections("...").getSubTypesOf(GenericTypeHere.class);

}

解决方案

Okay, so this is due to a subtle semantic difference.

List

This is the raw type of List, which equates to T being of type Object. So it's the same as saying:

List

Now, the Compiler knows for a fact, that whatever happens, this is a subclass of type Object. And if you do..

List myList = new ArrayList();

myList.add(new Object());

It will work fine! This is because Object is the same or it is some derivation of the type.

List>

This is literally a list of unknown (Java Docs). We don't even know that the subclass of the things in here are of type Object. In fact, the ? type is an unknown type all on its own. It has nothing to do with Object! This is why when you try and do..

List> myList = new ArrayList>();

myList.add(new Object());

You get a compile time error!