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

In this case, the best you can hope for is to create a map of primitives to their Autoboxed equivalent and return a class of that type.