Get class of generic

Question

My class starts with

public abstract class LastActionHero(){

Now somewhere in the code I want to write H.class<

Answer 1

You can provide the type dynamically, however the compiler doesn't do this for you automagically.

public abstract class LastActionHero(){
    protected final Class hClass;
    protected LastActionHero(Class hClass) {
        this.hClass = hClass;
    }
    // use hClass how you like.
}

BTW: It not impossible to get this dynamically, but it depends on how it is used. e.g

public class Arnie extends LastActionHero { }

It is possible to determine that Arnie.class has a super class with a Generic parameter of MuscleHero.

public class Arnie extends LastActionHero { }

The generic parameter of the super class will be just H in this case.