How do I address unchecked cast warnings?

Question

Eclipse is giving me a warning of the following form:

Type safety: Unchecked cast from Object to HashMap

This is from a call to

Answer 1

A quick guess if you post your code can say for sure but you might have done something along the lines of

HashMap test = new HashMap();

which will produce the warning when you need to do

HashMap test = new HashMap();

it might be worth looking at

Generics in the Java Programming Language

if your unfamiliar with what needs to be done.