The following example illustrates my problem (I want the mother of a Lion to be a Lion, the mother of a Monkey to be a Monkey and so on).
public class Animal<T extends Animal> {
private T mother;
public void setMother(T mother) {
this.mother = mother;
}
public void receiveChild(T child) {
child.setMother(this);
}
}
The compiler gives me the following warning:
Animal.java:10: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to setMother(T) as a member
of the raw type Animal
child.setMother(this);
^
where T is a type-variable:
T extends Animal declared in class Animal
Is it possible to do this in a type safe way?
