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Thread: Return a List from a method

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    Default Return a List from a method

    Hello!

    I have created a list of customer in a class called bank like this:

     private List<customer> customerList = new LinkedList<>();
     
        public List getCustomerList()
        {
            return customerList;
        }

    Then I´ve added customers to that list via another test class. Now I want to print out the customer list via a for-loop in that class:

    for (Customer c : bank.getCustomerList())
                {
                    code for print out
                }

    I then get an error message saying: "Incompatible datatypes, Required Customer, Found: Object"

    Why is that? I know that I can just declare the list as public and then call the variable directly, but I wanna know why the other version doesn't work.

    Thanks!

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    Default Re: Return a List from a method

    Please post the full text of the error message showing the statement where the error happens.

    The returned List is not defined to be a list of Customers. Look at how customerList is defined.
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    Default Re: Return a List from a method

    You have not used Generics in the return type. Therefore the List is full of Object objects and not Customer objects.
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    Default Re: Return a List from a method

    Quote Originally Posted by Junky View Post
    You have not used Generics in the return type. Therefore the List is full of Object objects and not Customer objects.
    Thank you! That worked

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