Question

I have a class containing a static create method.

public class TestClass {

 public static <E> TestClass<E> create() {
    return new TestClass<E>();
  }

}

when I use TestClass.create() , it can be compiled. But when I use TestClass<String>.create(), it failed to compile, how to specify the generic?

Answer 1

Assuming you are asking about specifying the type explicitly in case type inference fails, you can use TestClass.<String>create() (notice how the type is after the . as opposed to before).