Get type name for generic parameter of generic class [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you're doing it in a subclass which has it's parent class defining the generic type, this is what worked for me:

// get generic type class name
String name = ((ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass()).getActualTypeArguments()[0].toString();

// then when you've got the name, you can make the Class object
Class.forName(name.replace("class ", ""))

Reason why I couldn't do it with #getClass() instead of #toString() in the first snip is that I was always getting the "Class" class, which is useless to me.