On 29/07/2013 21:45, Nick Williams wrote:
> 
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 
>> On 29/07/2013 21:04, Nick Williams wrote:
>>> On Jul 29, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This flags as a warning for me in IDEA without the suppression.
>>>> Isn't this an unchecked cast (Object to List<String>)?
>> 
>> It is an unchecked cast but there is no way to avoid the cast so
>> there is no point the IDE flagging it as there is nothing the
>> developer can do to fix it. Eclipse added an option (Ignore
>> unavoidable generic type problems) not to flag issues such as this
>> as of a recent(ish) version.
>> 
>>> Yes, that's an unchecked cast. The @SuppressWarnings was not
>>> unnecessary.
>> 
>> Yes, it is unchecked cast. However, the warning is pointless and 
>> shouldn't have been generated in the first place.
>> 
>> The Tomcat 8 code base should not exhibit any warnings with the
>> defined Eclipse settings [1]. Ditto for FindBugs and Checkstyle
>> with the provided configurations.
> 
> Shouldn't it also not exhibit any warnings when compiled by the JDK?

That isn't the standard the Tomcat community decided to adopt.

Mrk

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