Spring 3 queryForList Returntypechanged

[fatboysuns]

Hi,
I was trying to Include the spring3 m3 jars into my project and found that return type of queryForList has been changed from List<Map> to List<Map<String, Object>. This seems to throw compilation problems. I use jdk 1.5_011.

Can this be taken care before the actual release of the product.

-Sundar

[trisberg]

"seems to throw compilation problems" is a bit vague - could you be more specific, maybe post your code and the actual error you are seeing?

[fatboysuns]

Code is
List<Map> list = jdbcTemplate.queryForList(someQuery);

Problem is (on Myeclipse)

Cannot cast from List<Map<String,Object>> to List<Map>

Problem from javacing using Ant is

inconvertible types
found : java.util.List<java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java .lang.Object>>
required: java.util.List<java.util.Map>
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It seems weird to me too as Java should technically be looking only @ list and not anything else.

Both myeclipse and my ant script seemed to throw compilation problem.

[trisberg]

List<Map> is not the correct return type for queryForList in either Spring 2.5 or Spring 3.0.

The correct type is

for Spring 2.5: List
for Spring 3.0: List<Map<String, Object>>

Both of these return types work with Spring 2.5 and 3.0.

List<Map> works with 2.5 since Java can cast from List to List<Map>. When we add generics in 3.0, the return type changes to List<Map<String, Object>> and this can't be cast to List<Map>, so you get a compilation error.