From e98a39ba255eda7ec75d1a5ca62814cfb153fb3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikr <michael.krimgen@ximedes.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:28:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-2562 New section in Generics article

---
 .../src/main/java/com/baeldung/generics/Generics.java    | 7 +++++++
 .../java/com/baeldung/generics/GenericsUnitTest.java     | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core-java-lang-syntax/src/main/java/com/baeldung/generics/Generics.java b/core-java-lang-syntax/src/main/java/com/baeldung/generics/Generics.java
index e0536ca02e..1c4082c58b 100644
--- a/core-java-lang-syntax/src/main/java/com/baeldung/generics/Generics.java
+++ b/core-java-lang-syntax/src/main/java/com/baeldung/generics/Generics.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.baeldung.generics;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.function.Function;
@@ -28,4 +29,10 @@ public class Generics {
         buildings.forEach(Building::paint);
     }
 
+    public static List<Integer> createList(int a) {
+        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
+        list.add(a);
+        return list;
+    }
+
 }
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diff --git a/core-java-lang-syntax/src/test/java/com/baeldung/generics/GenericsUnitTest.java b/core-java-lang-syntax/src/test/java/com/baeldung/generics/GenericsUnitTest.java
index aca0b182a0..0bdf0afc15 100644
--- a/core-java-lang-syntax/src/test/java/com/baeldung/generics/GenericsUnitTest.java
+++ b/core-java-lang-syntax/src/test/java/com/baeldung/generics/GenericsUnitTest.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.hasItems;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
@@ -66,4 +67,12 @@ public class GenericsUnitTest {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void givenAnInt_whenAddedToAGenericIntegerList_thenAListItemCanBeAssignedToAnInt() {
+        int number = 7;
+        List<Integer> list = Generics.createList(number);
+        int otherNumber = list.get(0);
+        assertThat(otherNumber, is(number));
+    }
+
 }
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