java.lang.ClassCastException

Question

Normally whats the reason to get java.lang.ClassCastException ..? I get the following error in my application

java.lang.ClassCastException: [Lcom.rsa.authag         


        

Answer 1

@Laurențiu Dascălu's answer explains how / why you get a ClassCastException.

Your exception message looks rather suspicious to me, but it might help you to know that "[Lcom.rsa.authagent.authapi.realmstat.AUTHw" means that the actual type of the object that you were trying to cast was com.rsa.authagent.authapi.realmstat.AUTHw[]; i.e. it was an array object.

Normally, the next steps to solving a problem like this are:

• examining the stacktrace to figure out which line of which class threw the exception,
• examining the corresponding source code, to see what the expected type, and
• tracing back to see where the object with the "wrong" type came from.