How to access the .class from a class with a Generic?

Question

When it comes to classes without generics, i can access this .class attribute like this:

class Foo{
    Class getMyClass(){
        return Foo.cla         


        

Answer 1

You can always do this:

class Foo{
    Class> getMyClass(){
        return (Class>)(Class)Foo.class
    }
}

You will have unchecked cast warnings, because it indeed is unsafe -- as others have mentioned, the returned class object is not any more "Foo's class" as "Foo's class".