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Reference assignment involving Generics and hierarchy- Niko's Blog

 
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Source- Niko's SCJP Mock, Generics

There are lot of related questions on assignment and hierarchy, few of them were-




There are some of them which uses ? super. How to go about solving such questions?

 
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well for a detailed explanation and concept building, i would suggest you to read the chapter of Collections and Generics from K & B thoroughly.

As for the first code, <? extends Number> means any class that is a subclass of class Number can come here. Since Integer is a subclass of Number , and list2 is a List of type Integer , list1 = list2 will compile without any errors.

for the second code , list one is defined to be of type Integer ( a fixed definite type) so any list of only the type Integer can be assigned to it. but on the right hand side we find that , we get list of type <? extends Number> so compilation fails.
 
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saima kanwal wrote:well for a detailed explanation and concept building, i would suggest you to read the chapter of Collections and Generics from K & B thoroughly.



Yeah i have gone through the chapters. But its a bit confusing.

saima kanwal wrote:As for the first code, <? extends Number> means any class that is a subclass of class Number can come here. Since Integer is a subclass of Number , and list2 is a List of type Integer , list1 = list2 will compile without any errors.

for the second code , list one is defined to be of type Integer ( a fixed definite type) so any list of only the type Integer can be assigned to it. but on the right hand side we find that , we get list of type <? extends Number> so compilation fails.



Thanks for the explanation. Just cleared the confusion
 
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