How do I get rid of the uncheck conversion warning as a result of using PropertiesConfiguration from apache.commons

I prefer not to use SuppressWarnings. I prefer to write code that produces no complaints. I import the apache.commons class PropertiesConfiguration.

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numbers = 0.222,0.333
animals = dog,cat

I then read the file into an instance of Pro开发者_如何转开发pertiesConfiguration, say it is referenced by "pc".

                List<String> myStringList = pc.getList("animals");

The call to getList() produces a compile-time warning about unchecked conversions. How do I improve this without SupressWarnings?

It looks like getList() returns a generic List object. How about using getStringArray() instead which returns an array of Strings?