🚀 go-pugleaf

Greg Hamer wrote:
> 
> You are on the right track. You just need to cast it back to a DataClass
> object .
> For safety's sake you can say
> Object o = e.nextElement()
> if (o instanceof DataClass){
>   DataClass dc = (DataClass) o;
>   //do stuff
> ...
> }
> 

You're much better off without the instanceof test.  Go ahead and do the cast in
a try block and catch any ClassCastException that might get thrown.  That way
the general case (cast successful) works faster (avoids the redundant instanceof
test) and the exceptional (probably never encountered) case is handled
gracefully.

try {
  DataClass dc = (DataClass) o;
  // do stuff
} catch (ClassCastException e) {
  // oops .. put error handling code here
}

All the best,
++Brian

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