type mismatch cannot convert from element type object to string

Question

I keep getting this error when making a search method in my code to search through string. I have gone through alot of examples trying to fix this but I cant find any. Thank

Answer 1

You are having exception at this line :

 for (String item : notes)

notes is an ArrayList declared as raw type, although i don't see the declaration i can see this line of initialization:

notes = new ArrayList();

which sees it's element as of type Object You need to declare notes with ArrayList type such as:

  ArrayList notes = new ArrayList<>();