How do you cast a List of supertypes to a List of subtypes?

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Simply casting to List<TestB> almost works; but it doesn’t work because you can’t cast a generic type of one parameter to another. However, you can cast through an intermediate wildcard type and it will be allowed (since you can cast to and from wildcard types, just with an unchecked warning):

List<TestB> variable = (List<TestB>)(List<?>) collectionOfListA;

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