Generics in Mockito.mock() method

[sten]

Hi guys,

Just finished reading Mockito documentation, seems it can save me from
headache I had with EasyMock :-)

I have small suggestion/improvement:

Is it possible to make Mockito support generics in Mockito.mock()
method?
For example code:
final List<String> list = Mockito.mock(List.class);
will produce warning:
Type safety: The expression of type List needs unchecked conversion to
conform to List<String>

I think you can solve it by changing signature of the method from:
public static <T> T mock(Class<T> classToMock)
to:
public static <T> T mock(Class<?> classToMock)

Thanks for amazing framework)))

[szczepiq]

Hey.

I have a feeling we evaluated this idea in one of the issue report. I believe we discovered a some issues with this approach.

Thanks for feedback! ;)
Cheers!
Szczepan

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[Brice Dutheil]

Yes, there is an issue on this matter.

As suggested by Szczepan in a previous discussion, I would rather advice you to use @SuppressWarning("unchecked") in your test code. So you can favor readability over verbosity.

Regards,

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Brice