How to cast generic List types in java?

Question

Well, I have a class Customer (no base class).

I need to cast from LinkedList to List. Is there any clean way to do this?

Just so you know, I need to cast it

Answer 1

List is an interface, LinkedList is a concrete implementation of that interface. Much of the time an implicit cast will work, assign a LinkedList to a List, or pass it to a function expecting a List and it should just `work'.

An explicit cast can also be done if necessary.

//This is valid
List myList = new LinkedList();

//Also Valid
List myList = (List) new LinkedList();