Acquiring generic class type

Question

Hi is there any way in Java to get staticly generic class type

I have ended up with construct

    List l = new ArrayList&         


        

Answer 1

Basically, just cast around to fool the compiler. At runtime it's a simple Class anyway.

a utility method:

public static >
Class cast(Class classC, Class classE)
{
    return (Class)classC;
}

Class> c = 
        cast(List.class, TaskLocalConstraints.class);

If you need a real Type complete with runtime generic type info, that's a different story.