How to identify object types in java [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can compare class tokens to each other, so you could use value.getClass() == Integer.class. However, the simpler and more canonical way is to use instanceof :

    if (value instanceof Integer) {
        System.out.println("This is an Integer");
    } else if(value instanceof String) {
        System.out.println("This is a String");
    } else if(value instanceof Float) {
        System.out.println("This is a Float");
    }

Notes:

• the only difference between the two is that comparing class tokens detects exact matches only, while instanceof C matches for subclasses of C too. However, in this case all the classes listed are final, so they have no subclasses. Thus instanceof is probably fine here.

• as JB Nizet stated, such checks are not OO design. You may be able to solve this problem in a more OO way, e.g.

  System.out.println("This is a(n) " + value.getClass().getSimpleName());