The example is all wrong IMHO, it should look something like this List<Number> emails = (newJacksonRepresentation<List<Number>>(rep, new ArrayList<Number>())).getObject();
The point here is that the constructor is looking for an object of type T.
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public JacksonRepresentation(MediaType mediaType, T object) { ...
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