Generics in static methods

Question

I need to add a method in a utility class with some static methods that parses things from a JSON string and returns an array of things.

Problem is that there are variou

Answer 1

From memory this is a similar problem to what you have when using Arrays.asList()

With this you do

Arrays.(new MyObject(), new MyObject());

or in your specific case where you are passing an array eg

Arrays.asList(new Integer[]{new Integer(1)});

The signature in the JDK for this method is

public static  List asList(T... a){...}

which is similar to your I think