What is the “proper” way to cast Hibernate Query.list() to List?

Question

I\'m a newbie with Hibernate, and I\'m writing a simple method to return a list of objects matching a specific filter. List seemed a natural return t

Answer 1

You can avoid compiler warning with workarounds like this one:

List resultRaw = query.list();
List result = new ArrayList(resultRaw.size());
for (Object o : resultRaw) {
    result.add((MyObj) o);
}

But there are some issues with this code:

• created superfluous ArrayList
• unnecessary loop over all elements returned from the query
• longer code.

And the difference is only cosmetic, so using such workarounds is - in my opinion - pointless.

You have to live with these warnings or suppress them.