casting Arrays.asList causing exception: java.util.Arrays$ArrayList cannot be cast to java.util.ArrayList

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For me (using Java 1.6.0_26), the first snippet gives the same exception as the second one. The reason is that the Arrays.asList(..) method does only return a List, not necessarily an ArrayList. Because you don’t really know what kind (or implementation of) of List that method returns, your cast to ArrayList<String> is not safe. The result is that it may or may not work as expected. From a coding style perspective, a good fix for this would be to change your stuff declaration to:

List<List<String>> stuff = new ArrayList<List<String>>();

which will allow to add whatever comes out of the Arrays.asList(..) method.

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