From 0140d9a5fa848b8a732d48f6a3399367c7efe610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremiah Jordan <jeremiah@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:23:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant intermediate casts in reflective type
 resolution

---
 src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TypeParser.java    | 6 +++---
 .../cassandra/locator/AbstractReplicationStrategy.java      | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TypeParser.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TypeParser.java
index 8e2da14142..d3a20fc7ca 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TypeParser.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/marshal/TypeParser.java
@@ -496,9 +496,9 @@ public class TypeParser
         // access or getInstance(TypeParser) invocation below performs the initialization for valid types.
         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
         Class<? extends AbstractType<?>> typeClass =
-            (Class<? extends AbstractType<?>>)(Class<?>) FBUtilities.classForNameWithoutInitialization(className,
-                                                                                                       "abstract-type",
-                                                                                                       AbstractType.class);
+            (Class<? extends AbstractType<?>>) FBUtilities.classForNameWithoutInitialization(className,
+                                                                                             "abstract-type",
+                                                                                             AbstractType.class);
         return typeClass;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/AbstractReplicationStrategy.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/AbstractReplicationStrategy.java
index 395c59f835..4be3f0e605 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/AbstractReplicationStrategy.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/AbstractReplicationStrategy.java
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractReplicationStrategy
 
         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
         Class<AbstractReplicationStrategy> strategyClass =
-            (Class<AbstractReplicationStrategy>)(Class<?>) FBUtilities.classForNameWithoutInitialization(className,
-                                                                                                        "replication strategy",
-                                                                                                        AbstractReplicationStrategy.class);
+            (Class<AbstractReplicationStrategy>) FBUtilities.classForNameWithoutInitialization(className,
+                                                                                             "replication strategy",
+                                                                                             AbstractReplicationStrategy.class);
         return strategyClass;
     }