On Sep 30, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
Any of you generics experts out there know if there is any way to
get the generic type from a generic class... like, say you have:
Class type = new ArrayList<String>().getClass();
Is there any way to determine that this is an ArrayList containing
String objects? I can't seem to figure out how to get this
information out of the Class instance. I can figure out what the
type variable name was, er like T, but that is well, completely
useless IMO.
Does anyone know if its possible and how to do it?
I spent a couple days reading up on generics and trying stuff and
concluded it was not possible. There are some statements in the book
on generics that confirm this. Hopefully you will find a way to
prove I'm wrong 'cause it sure would be handy :-)
sorry
david jencks
--jason
