Adding type argument to EnumSet always give me "Bound mismatch"

Question

I have this code below:

public static <E> Set<E> union(Set<E> set1, Set<E> set2) {
    Set<E> resultSet = new HashSet<>(set1);
    resultSet.addAll(set2);
    return resultSet;
}

I want to overload one method like below, and get bound mismatch:

 public static <E> Set<E> union(EnumSet<E extends Enum<E>> set1, EnumSet<E extends Enum<E>> set2){
    Set<E> resultSet = set1.clone();
    resultSet.addAll(set2);
    return resultSet;
}

And I change to below, and it doesn't work.

Why? And how can I do?

And the bounds to the variable declaration for `E`. – Boris the Spider Oct 15 '14 at 08:15 — Boris the Spider, Oct 15 '14 at 08:15
Boris the Spider, thanks you. – Yu-Ting Chen Oct 15 '14 at 08:19 — Yu-Ting Chen, Oct 15 '14 at 08:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '14 at 08:16

The class EnumSet is declared as following

public abstract class EnumSet<E extends Enum<E>> extends ... implements ... { ... }

Here you can see that the type variable E is constrained to being a subtype of Enum<E>. Hence, you must constrain the type variable of your static method in the same way:

public static <E extends Enum<E>> Set<E> union(EnumSet<E> set1, EnumSet<E> set2) {
    Set<E> resultSet = set1.clone();
    resultSet.addAll(set2);
    return resultSet;
}

Adding type argument to EnumSet always give me "Bound mismatch"

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