What does this do?
return (HashTable[])stuff.toArray(new HashTable[0]);
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: Offtopic: Quick Java programming question...
> I'm trying to write a method which returns an array of Hashtables, and in
> the method, I am assembling the data as a vector, and trying to user
> "toArray()" to return the data as an array.
> Something like this:
>
> private Hashtable[] getStuff() {
> Vector stuff = new Vector();
> Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
> ht.put("A", "Stuff A");
> ht.put("B", "Stuff B");
> stuff.add(0, ht);
> return (Hashtable[]) stuff.toArray();
> }
>
> This compiles great, but when I execute the line:
> Hashtable[] test = getStuff();
>
> I get a java.lang.ClassCastException. The only way I have been able to
get
> this to work, is to have the function return "Object[]", and explicitly
cast
> the returned object everytime I reference it, but I would like to make the
> function simply return an array of Hashtable objects.
>
> Any ideas on why the code above doesn't work, or how I can get it to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Costa
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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