Java: Casting Object to Array type

Question

I am using a web service that returns a plain object of the type \"Object\". Debug shows clearly that there is some sort of Array in this object so I was wondering how I can cas

Answer 1

What you've got (according to the debug image) is an object array containing a string array. So you need something like:

Object[] objects = (Object[]) values;
String[] strings = (String[]) objects[0];

You haven't shown the type of values - if this is already Object[] then you could just use (String[])values[0].

Of course even with the cast to Object[] you could still do it in one statement, but it's ugly:

String[] strings = (String[]) ((Object[])values)[0];

Answer 2

Your values object is obviously an Object[] containing a String[] containing the values.

String[] stringValues = (String[])values[0];