Creating an Array of unknown type

Question

I have an object which I must validate values off the problem, some of the attributes of the Objects are arrays of custom objects. Such that it will involve some boring down

Answer 1

If you want to have arrays of unknown types, use generics:

 public  T[] getAttribArray(Class repeatingGrpClass)
 {
    //get the attribute based on the class (which you might get based on the enum for example)
    return (T[]) getAttrib( repeatingGrpClass.getName() ); //note that you might want to use the class object instead of its name here
 }