Document type safety limitations of the CollectionFactory API [SPR-12596]

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Sam Brannen opened SPR-12596 and commented

Status Quo

As discussed in #17142, the CollectionFactory API is not type-safe.

Deliverables

1. Update the Javadoc for CollectionFactory to point out that the API is not necessarily type-safe.

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Affects: 4.1.3

Issue Links:

• CollectionFactory API is not type-safe [SPR-12537] #17142 CollectionFactory API is not type-safe ("supersedes")

Referenced from: commits 4a49a65

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Sam Brannen commented

Addressed in GitHub commit 4a49a65.