Simple way to get wrapper class type in Java

Question

I have a piece of code where I need to pass the class of a field in a method. Because of the mechanics of my code I can only handle reference objects and not primitives. I w

Answer 1

You can call class.isPrimitive() to know if it is a primitive or not, however, there is no boxing method to convert the classes within the JDK. There is at least one open bug relating to this.