java warning: Varargs method could cause heap pollution from non-reifiable varargs parameter

Question

I am using IntelliJ IDEA with javac on JDK 1.8. I have the following code:

class Test
{
    @SafeVarargs
    final void varargsMe         


        

Answer 1

Assuming that I know what I am doing

I refuse to assume this since this seems incredibly wrong.

The situation you're running into here is that, because generics are not reifiable, you're declaring a generic array, which is generally frowned upon. Generics and arrays don't mix very well, given that an array is covariant (String[] is an Object[] in the same way that a String is an Object), whereas generics are invariant (List is not a List