Suspicious 'Collection.toArray()' call

Reports suspicious calls to Collection.toArray().

The following types of calls are considered suspicious:

when the type of the array argument is not the same as the array type to which the result is casted.
when the type of the array argument does not match the type parameter in the collection declaration.

Example:

void m1(List list) {
  Number[] ns = (Number[]) list.toArray(new String[0]);
}

void m2(List<Number> list) {
  Number[] ns = list.toArray(new String[0]);
}

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SuspiciousToArrayCall

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Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2, Qodana for JVM 2024.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Java, 242.22892

Last modified: 11 September 2024