Test if object is instanceof a parameter type

Question

Is there a way to determine if an object is an instance of a generic type?

public  test(Object obj) {
    if (obj instanceof T) {
        ...
    }
         


        

Answer 1

To extend the sample of Mark Peters, often you want to do something like:

Class type; //maybe passed to the method
if ( type.isInstance(obj) ) {
   T t = type.cast(obj);
   // ...
}