Casting failed when iterating over a Set

[JeremyReeder]

I'm working on a targeting system and having a problem when I iterate over a Set of Bogeys.

Here's the code:

public class BogeySet<Bogey> extends TreeSet<Bogey> {
public Bogey get(String name) {
for (Bogey bogey : this) {
if (bogey.getName().equals(name)) {
return bogey;
break;
}
}
return null;
}
}

And here's the error:

BogeySet.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : method getName()
location: class java.lang.Object
if (bogey.getName().equals(name)) {

1 error

It seems to me that I am clearly specifying that the Objects within the set are Bogeys, so why is Java considering them merely Objects and complaining?

By the way, there is a reason why I'm using a Set instead of a Map. For most purposes within my program I want to consider this a NavigableSet, and it seemed easier to simply add a getter to my Set than to adapt a Map to sort by value and get the values throughout the rest of my code.

[eRaaaa]

are you meaning
class BogeySet<E extends Bogey> :confused:

and return bogey; break; makes no sense. Delete the break; !

[JeremyReeder]

BogeySet extends TreeSet, and BogeySets only contain Bogeys.

As for "<E extends Bogey>", I don't know what you mean. That makes no sense to me or to my compiler.

You are correct, of course, that my break command would never execute. So I removed it.

But what's causing this "cannot find symbol" error? Bogey has a getName() method and it would be executed if Java considered bogey to be a Bogey. But Java is considering bogey to be simply an Object, which has no getName() method. Very strange.

[DarrylBurke]

If I'm not mistaken that should be

public class BogeySet extends TreeSet<Bogey> {

db

[JeremyReeder]

Thank you. Since BogeySets never need to contain anything other than Bogeys, changing "BogeySet<Bogey>" to "Bogey" throughout my code resolved the problem.