Fix for defaulting behaviour for lombok annotations.

What's the name of one of those bugs where you look at it and go: Wow. This can never have possibly worked?
And yet it has? An inverse heisenbug: Once observed, it has always existed, but before observing it, no problems.

Anyway, fixed. For what it's worth.

src/core/lombok/core/AnnotationValues.java

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ public List<String> getAsStringList(String methodName) {
 		AnnotationValue v = values.get(methodName);
 
 		if (v == null) {
-			String[] s = getDefaultIf(methodName, String[].class, new String[0]);
+			String[] s = getDefaultIf(methodName, new String[0]);
 			return Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(s));
 		}
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ public List<String> getAsStringList(String methodName) {
 			Object result = guess == null ? null : guessToType(guess, String.class, v, idx);
 			if (result == null) {
 				if (v.valueGuesses.size() == 1) {
-					String[] s = getDefaultIf(methodName, String[].class, new String[0]);
+					String[] s = getDefaultIf(methodName, new String[0]);
 					return Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(s));
 				} 
 				throw new AnnotationValueDecodeFail(v, 
@@ -190,28 +190,29 @@ public List<String> getAsStringList(String methodName) {
 	public String getAsString(String methodName) {
 		AnnotationValue v = values.get(methodName);
 		if (v == null || v.valueGuesses.size() != 1) {
-			return getDefaultIf(methodName, String.class, "");
+			return getDefaultIf(methodName, "");
 		}
 
 		Object guess = guessToType(v.valueGuesses.get(0), String.class, v, 0);
 		if (guess instanceof String) return (String) guess;
-		return getDefaultIf(methodName, String.class, "");
+		return getDefaultIf(methodName, "");
 	}
 
 	public boolean getAsBoolean(String methodName) {
 		AnnotationValue v = values.get(methodName);
 		if (v == null || v.valueGuesses.size() != 1) {
-			return getDefaultIf(methodName, boolean.class, false);
+			return getDefaultIf(methodName, false);
 		}
 
 		Object guess = guessToType(v.valueGuesses.get(0), boolean.class, v, 0);
 		if (guess instanceof Boolean) return ((Boolean) guess).booleanValue();
-		return getDefaultIf(methodName, boolean.class, false);
+		return getDefaultIf(methodName, false);
 	}
 
-	public <T> T getDefaultIf(String methodName, Class<T> type, T defaultValue) {
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+	public <T> T getDefaultIf(String methodName, T defaultValue) {
 		try {
-			return type.cast(Permit.getMethod(type, methodName).getDefaultValue());
+			return (T) Permit.getMethod(type, methodName).getDefaultValue();
 		} catch (Exception e) {
 			return defaultValue;
 		}

src/core/lombok/eclipse/handlers/HandleToString.java

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public static MethodDeclaration createToString(EclipseNode type, Collection<Incl
 
 			if (!prefix.isEmpty()) {
 				StringLiteral px = new StringLiteral(prefix.toCharArray(), pS, pE, 0);
-				setGeneratedBy(px, source);				
+				setGeneratedBy(px, source);
 				current = new BinaryExpression(current, px, PLUS);
 				current.sourceStart = pS; current.sourceEnd = pE;
 				setGeneratedBy(current, source);

src/core/lombok/javac/HandlerLibrary.java

@@ -104,13 +104,13 @@ private static class AnnotationHandlerContainer<T extends Annotation> {
 			this.handler = handler;
 			this.annotationClass = annotationClass;
 			HandlerPriority hp = handler.getClass().getAnnotation(HandlerPriority.class);
-			this.priority = hp == null ? 0L : (((long)hp.value()) << 32) + hp.subValue();
+			this.priority = hp == null ? 0L : (((long) hp.value()) << 32) + hp.subValue();
 			this.resolutionResetNeeded = handler.getClass().isAnnotationPresent(ResolutionResetNeeded.class);
 			this.evenIfAlreadyHandled = handler.getClass().isAnnotationPresent(AlreadyHandledAnnotations.class);
 		}
 
 		public void handle(final JavacNode node) {
-			handler.handle(JavacHandlerUtil.createAnnotation(annotationClass, node), (JCAnnotation)node.get(), node);
+			handler.handle(JavacHandlerUtil.createAnnotation(annotationClass, node), (JCAnnotation) node.get(), node);
 		}
 
 		public long getPriority() {