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

In addition to @To-kra's answer. If someone doesn't like recurrence:

    public static boolean isSubClassOf(Class clazz, Class superClass) {
        if(Object.class.equals(superClass)) {
            return true;
        }

        for(; !Object.class.equals(clazz); clazz = clazz.getSuperclass()) {
            if(clazz.getSuperclass().equals(superClass)) {
                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

NOTE: no null checking for clarity.