Java - Type mismatch: cannot convert from element type Object to String

Question

I'm having this error:

Type mismatch: cannot convert from element type Object to String

This is the code in error:

public List<String> customPrefixes(PermissionUser u)
{
    List returnlist = new ArrayList();
    for (String k : u.getAllPermissions().keySet()) {
        List perms = (List)u.getAllPermissions().get(k);
        for (String s : perms) {
            String[] split = s.split(".");
            if ((split.length >= 3) && 
              (split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("plugin")) && 
              (split[1].equalsIgnoreCase("prefix"))) {
                returnlist.add(split[2]);
            }
        }
    }
    return returnlist;
}

Answer 1

try this :

public List<String> customPrefixes(PermissionUser u)
  {
    List<String> returnlist = new ArrayList<String>();
    for (String k : u.getAllPermissions().keySet()) {
      List<String> perms = (List<String>)(u.getAllPermissions()).get(k);
      for (String s : perms) {
        String[] split = s.split(".");
        if ((split.length >= 3) &&
          (split[0].equalsIgnoreCase("plugin")) &&
          (split[1].equalsIgnoreCase("prefix"))) {
          returnlist.add(split[2]);
        }
      }

    }

    return returnlist;
  }

You were missing "<String>" in the List declaration