Compiling these lines in Java - possible in any way?

Question

its about compiling this method, where T is generic. Is there a way to compile this with the javac Compiler (Java 1.8) without getting any error?

public class MyGenericClass<T>{
    public void someGenericAction(T value){
        int key = (int) value;
    }
}

Best regards from Germany!

Answer 1

You can do this

class MyGenericClass<T>{
        public static <T>void someGenericAction(T value){
            int key = (Integer)value; // here is your's
            System.out.println(key);
        }

        public static void main(String[] args){
            someGenericAction(12);
        }
}