I know that similar questions have been asked (here, here, here), but none of the answers seem to apply to my case.
Consider the following set of interfaces:
public interface I1<X> {
void method(X arg);
}
public interface I2 {
void method(String arg);
}
public interface I3 extends I1<String>, I2 {
// empty
}
Now I want to call method(String) on an instance of I3, like so:
public class C implements I3 {
public void method(String arg) {
// does nothing
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
((I3) new C()).method("arg");
}
}
The OpenJDK (Java 7 or 8, doesn't matter) flags an incompatibility error here:
generics\C.java:10: error: reference to method is ambiguous
((I3) new C()).method("arg");
^
both method method(String) in I2 and method method(X) in I1 match
where X is a type-variable:
X extends Object declared in interface I1
Since X is instantiated to String in I3, I do not see where the problem comes from. Note that Eclipse considers this to be fine.
