Re: My object is not compatible with java/lang/Object

[Paul E Johnson]

Nicolas Garrido wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Why a receive the following message?
> 
> *** Error: The type of the left-hand side in this assignment, "Consumer", is
> not
>  compatible with the type of the right-hand side expression,
> "java/lang/Object"
> 
> This is the instruction
> 
>    Consumer auxCons;
>    auxCons = ConsumerGrid.getObjectAtX$Y(this.xnorm(i),this.ynorm(j));
> 
You need to cast the thing you get back as a Consumer.  Its that way in
java generally. When you take an object out of a list, you must cast it
as its own type.  Putting things into lists causes them to be seen as
just Objects, you know.

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