Check if a Class Object is subclass of another Class Object in Java

Question

I\'m playing around with Java\'s reflection API and trying to handle some fields. Now I\'m stuck with identifying the type of my fields. Strings are easy, just do myFi

Answer 1

This works for me:

protected boolean isTypeOf(String myClass, Class superClass) {
    boolean isSubclassOf = false;
    try {
        Class clazz = Class.forName(myClass);
        if (!clazz.equals(superClass)) {
            clazz = clazz.getSuperclass();
            isSubclassOf = isTypeOf(clazz.getName(), superClass);
        } else {
            isSubclassOf = true;
        }

    } catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
        /* Ignore */
    }
    return isSubclassOf;
}