Pass class type as parameter to use in ArrayList?

Question

I need to write a java method which takes a class (not an object) and then creates an ArrayList with that class as the element of each member in the array. Pseudo-code exam

Answer 1

It is not a good practice, just an example of using Object and

this.array_employee = loadDataArrayListFromFileJson(fileName_employee, Employee.class);
this.array_movie = loadDataArrayListFromFileJson(fileName_movie, Movie.class);
this.array_store = loadDataArrayListFromFileJson(fileName_store, Store.class);

private  ArrayList loadDataArrayListFromFileJson(String filename, Class class__) {
    ArrayList arraylist_objects = new ArrayList<>();

    String jsonArrayString = getResourceAsString(filename);
    JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
    Gson gson = new Gson();

    JSONArray json_array = new JSONArray(jsonArrayString);
    for (Object object : json_array) {
        JsonElement json_element = parser.parse(object.toString());
        Object element = gson.fromJson(json_element, class__);
        System.out.println(element);
        arraylist_objects.add((T) element);
    }
    return arraylist_objects;
}