Converting Integer to Long

Question

I need to get the value of a field using reflection. It so happens that I am not always sure what the datatype of the field is. For that, and to avoid some code duplication

Answer 1

Oddly enough I found that if you parse from a string it works.

 int i = 0;
 Long l = Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(i));
 int back = Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(l));

Win.