List<? extends MyType>

Question

I have a Java question about generics. I declared a generic list:

List listOfMyType;

Then in some method I try ins

Answer 1

There is a similar thread here: How can elements be added to a wildcard generic collection?

To get an idea of how generics works check out this example:

    List sfoo = new ArrayList();
    List foo;
    List tmp;

    tmp = sfoo;
    foo = (List) tmp;

The thing is, that wasn't designed for local/member variables, but for function signatures, that's why it's so ass-backwards.