How to fix this unchecked assignment warning?

var blks = ReflectionHelper.getClasses("PACKAGE_NAME");
var blockRta = RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory.of(Block.class);
for (var c : blks) {
    if (Block.class.isAssignableFrom(c)) {
        blockRta.registerSubtype(c);
    }
}

I got Warning:(31, 46) Unchecked assignment: 'java.lang.Class' to 'java.lang.Class<? extends PACKAGE_NAME.Block>' warning on the line blockRta.registerSubtype(c);, but I can’t figure out how to fix that without supressing it.

ReflectionHelper.getClasses is a static method to get all the classes in that package name, and its return type is Class[]. Block is an interface. RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory is a class in gson extra, and its source code can be viewed here.

Answer

Since ReflectionHelper.getClasses returns an array of the raw type Class, the local-variable type inference will use this raw type Class[] for var blks and in turn, the raw type Class for var c. Using the raw type Class for c allows passing it to registerSubtype(Class<? extends Block>), without any check, but not without any warning. You can use the method asSubclass to perform a checked conversion, but you have to declare an explicit non-raw variable type, to get rid of the raw type, as otherwise, even the result of the asSubclass invocation will be erased to a raw type by the compiler.

There are two approaches. Change the type of blks:

Class<?>[] blks = ReflectionHelper.getClasses("PACKAGE_NAME");
var blockRta = RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory.of(Block.class);
for(var c: blks) {
    if (Block.class.isAssignableFrom(c)) {
        blockRta.registerSubtype(c.asSubclass(Block.class));
    }
}

Then, the type of var c changes automatically to Class<?>.

Or just change the type of c:

var blks = ReflectionHelper.getClasses("PACKAGE_NAME");
var blockRta = RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory.of(Block.class);
for(Class<?> c: blks) {
    if (Block.class.isAssignableFrom(c)) {
        blockRta.registerSubtype(c.asSubclass(Block.class));
    }
}