How to instantiate Class class for a primitive type?

Question

I\'m trying to do this, but doesn\'t work:

public static Class loadIt(String name) throws Throwable {
  return Class.forName(name);
}
assert foo.loadIt(\"int         


        

Answer 1

We use or own simple method (Java 7+):

/**
 * Return the java {@link java.lang.Class} object with the specified class name.
 *
 * This is an "extended" {@link java.lang.Class#forName(java.lang.String) } operation.
 *
 * + It is able to return Class objects for primitive types
 * + Classes in name space `java.lang` do not need the fully qualified name
 * + It does not throw a checked Exception
 *
 * @param className The class name, never `null`
 *
 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if no class can be loaded
 */
public static Class parseType(final String className) {
    switch (className) {
        case "boolean":
            return boolean.class;
        case "byte":
            return byte.class;
        case "short":
            return short.class;
        case "int":
            return int.class;
        case "long":
            return long.class;
        case "float":
            return float.class;
        case "double":
            return double.class;
        case "char":
            return char.class;
        case "void":
            return void.class;
        default:
            String fqn = className.contains(".") ? className : "java.lang.".concat(className);
            try {
                return Class.forName(fqn);
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Class not found: " + fqn);
            }
    }
}