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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:45:33+00:00

After calling list() on a Hibernate Query which you expect to just return a

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After calling list() on a Hibernate Query which you expect to just return a list of Foo objects (see example below), how best would you deal with this situation? 

Query query = session.createQuery("from Foo");
List list = query.list();

I don’t particularly like seeing this:

public List read() { ... }

When I would much prefer:

public List<Foo> read() { ... }

Would you expect callers of the read method to have cast to Foo for each element? Is there a nice way to get the read method to return List< Foo >?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Would you expect callers of the read method to have cast to Foo for each element? Is there a nice way to get the read method to return List< Foo >?

    No, I wouldn’t expect the caller to do the cast, so I’d write things like this:

    Query query = session.createQuery("from Foo");
List<Foo> list = query.list();

    And if you want to remove the non type-safe cast warning (the Hibernate Query API is not type-safe): 

    Query query = session.createQuery("from Foo");
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
List<Foo> list = query.list();
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