Collections.emptyList() returns a List?

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The issue you’re encountering is that even though the method emptyList() returns List<T>, you haven’t provided it with the type, so it defaults to returning List<Object>. You can supply the type parameter, and have your code behave as expected, like this:

public Person(String name) {
  this(name,Collections.<String>emptyList());
}

Now when you’re doing straight assignment, the compiler can figure out the generic type parameters for you. It’s called type inference. For example, if you did this:

public Person(String name) {
  List<String> emptyList = Collections.emptyList();
  this(name, emptyList);
}

then the emptyList() call would correctly return a List<String>.

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