Testing whether an object is a Java primitive array in Clojure

Question

What\'s the best way to detect whether an object is a Java primitive array in Clojure?

The reason I need this is to do some special handling for primitive arrays, which

Answer 1

As pointed by Arthur Ulfeldt, you can use Class/forName, for example, like here:

(def byte_array_class (Class/forName "[B"))

(defn byte-array? [arr] (instance? byte_array_class arr))

If you want to avoid magic strings like "[B" when caching the classes, you can apply class to an existing array object:

(def byte_array_class (class (byte-array [])))