Class and static method Class.forName() drive me crazy

Question

this code doesn\'t compile. I\'m wondering what I am doing wrong:

private static Importable getRightInstance(String s) throws Exception {
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Answer 1

The issue is Class.forName is a static method with the following definition

public static Class forName(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException

Therefore it is not a bound parameter type at all and compiler would definitely throw the cast warning here as it has no way to guarantee the string name of the class would always give you the implementation of the interface.

If you know for sure that the string name passed into the method would be an implementation of the interface you can use SuppressWarnings annotation. But I dont think ther eis any other cleaner way to use forName with generics