# Thursday, July 10, 2008

Overriding a method with a raw type, want to use generics in the override

I want to override that api.org.hibernate.Interceptor#postFlush(java.util.Iterator)
I want to do it like that:
@Override
public void postFlush( Iterator<?> entities ) throws CallbackException {...}
Does not work - the method is not with the same signature ?!

Then:
@Override
public void postFlush( Iterator<Object> entities ) throws CallbackException {...}
Does not work - the method is not with the same signature ?! WTF?

The only thing that does work (without a silly warning) is that:
@Override
public void postFlush( @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" ) Iterator entities ) throws CallbackException {


Why?!!
Sucks
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