Type safety with Java 8

[Mark Hobson]

Hi there,

Using Hamcrest under Java 8 appears to relax type safety in matcher expressions. For example, the following fails to compile under Java 7 but is fine in Java 8:

    assertThat(singletonList("x"), contains(123));

This is due to Java 8's generalized target-type inference. Is anyone aware of a way to improve Hamcrest's generics to reinstate the previous stricter behaviour?

Thanks,

Mark

[Thierry Monney]

Hi Mark,

Any news on this topic? I could not find much info and this group seems to be really quiet...

Cheers

Thierry

[Mark Hobson]

Hi Thierry,

I'm afraid there hasn't been any discussion about this. The list is
pretty quiet so perhaps raising an issue would be better.

Cheers,

Mark

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