Cast element in Java For Each statement

Question

Is it possible (or even advisable) to cast the element retrieved from a for each statement in the statement itself? I do know that each element in list will be of type <

Answer 1

If you are not partial to Google collections, you can wrap the list with transform method. In your case it will be very efficient and totally compliant. I would put it as a wrapper method though as Brian has suggested.

public List< SubType > fromDao ( )
{
    // Put a comment for maintainer

    // Lists from DAO always contain SubTypes
    return
        Lists.transform(
            DAO.getList( ),
            new Function< BaseType, SubType >( )
            {
                public SubType apply ( final BaseType from )
                {
                    return (SybType) from;
                }
            };
}