From 8913660672f8cf8a634334674927a85e4aa96792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Gustafson <rgustav@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:05:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Widen return type from Node.findChildNodesWithXPath() to
 List<? extends Node> from List<Node> allow casting results to a List of
 subclasses of Node (e.g. List<ASTVariableDeclarator>).

git-svn-id: https://pmd.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pmd/trunk@6303 51baf565-9d33-0410-a72c-fc3788e3496d
---
 .../net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/AbstractRuleViolation.java    | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/AbstractRuleViolation.java b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/AbstractRuleViolation.java
index 333598c762..36463dda3a 100644
--- a/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/AbstractRuleViolation.java
+++ b/pmd/src/net/sourceforge/pmd/lang/rule/AbstractRuleViolation.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRuleViolation implements RuleViolation {
 		String xpath = rule.getStringProperty(Rule.VIOLATION_SUPPRESS_XPATH_PROPERTY);
 		if (xpath != null) {
 		    try {
-			List<Node> children = node.findChildNodesWithXPath(xpath);
+			List<? extends Node> children = node.findChildNodesWithXPath(xpath);
 			if (children != null && !children.isEmpty()) {
 			    suppressed = true;
 			}