Handling safe varargs in Java 6 and 7, clarification needed

Question

What are the main differences between the JDK in terms of handling safe var args?

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The above issues a warning in JDK 1.6 -

Type safety: A generic array of List is created for a varargs parameter

Please help me understand.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '12 at 18:53

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JDK7 added the @SafeVarargs annotation to note when generic varargs are genuinely safe, and applied that annotation to e.g. Collections.addAll.

answered Oct 29 '12 at 18:53

Louis Wasserman

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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In short, this warning was moved to method declaration instead of method call. There was a good comment about this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3819038/891391

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Oct 29 '12 at 18:45

yatul

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