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| Reports any variables which may be declared with a weaker type. For instance, |
| a variable may be of type <b>ArrayList</b>, and only the method |
| <b>isEmpty()</b> is called on it. In this case the type |
| <b>List</b> would do just as well. |
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| Enable the first checkbox below to prevent weakening the left side of assignments when the right side is not |
| a type cast or new expression. When storing the result of a method call in a variable, it is |
| useful to retain the type of the method call result instead of unnecessarily weakening it. |
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| Enable the second checkbox below to use the parameterized type of the collection as weakest type when |
| the object evaluated is used as an argument to a collection method with a parameter type of |
| <b>java.lang.Object</b>. Use this option to prevent weakening to |
| <b>Object</b> when passing an object to the collection methods |
| <b>get()</b>, <b>remove()</b>, |
| <b>contains()</b>, <b>indexOf()</b>, |
| <b>lastIndexOf()</b>, <b>containsKey()</b> |
| and <b>containsValue()</b>. |
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| Use the third checkbox below to specify if this inspection should warn when a type can be |
| weakened to <b>java.lang.Object</b>. Weakening to |
| <b>java.lang.Object</b> is often not very useful. |
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| Use the fourth checkbox below to only report when the type can be weakened to an interface type. |
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