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KyelJmD
KyelJmD

Reputation: 4732

Cannot instantiate the type Tree<? super Number>

I have this class

public class Tree<T> {
    
    //List of branches for this tree
    private List<Tree<? super T>> branch = new ArrayList<Tree<? super T>>();
    public Tree(T t){ this.t = t; }
    public void addBranch(Tree< ? super T> src){ branch.add(src); }
    public Tree<? extends T> getBranch(int branchNum){
        return (Tree<? extends T>) branch.get(branchNum);
    }
    
    
    private T t;

}

And I am trying to create a variable out of this class using this

public static void main(String[] args){ 
        Tree<? super Number> num2 = new Tree<? super Number>(2);
    }

But it is giving me this error:

Cannot instantiate the type Tree<? super Number>

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8349

Answers (2)

Roman C
Roman C

Reputation: 1

Wildcards ? cannot be used when creating new instances. You should change your code to something like that

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class Test1 {
  public static void main(String[] args){
    Tree<? super Number> num2 = new Tree<Number>(2);
    num2.addBranch(new Tree<Number>(1));
    Tree<? super Number> num3 = (Tree<? super Number>) num2.getBranch(0);
    System.out.println(num3);
  }
}

class Tree<T> {

  //List of branches for this tree
  private List<Tree<? super T>> branch = new ArrayList<Tree<? super T>>();
  public Tree(T t){ this.t = t; }
  public void addBranch(Tree<Number> src){ branch.add((Tree<? super T>) src); }
  public Tree<? extends T> getBranch(int branchNum){
    return (Tree<? extends T>) branch.get(branchNum);
  }

  public String toString(){
    return String.valueOf(t);
  }

  private T t;

}

Upvotes: 4

kosa
kosa

Reputation: 66657

While instantiating generics should be replaced with corresponding objects.

Ex:

 Tree<Integer> num2 = new Tree<Integer>(2);

Upvotes: 4

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