generics in Groovy

Question

The following Groovy code prints \"it works\"

def printIt(Class clazz) {
  println \"it works\"
}

printIt(String.class)
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Answer 1

Since you know it's supposed to be an Exception, this works in Java (or Groovy):

// true if the class is a subclass of Exception
Exception.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz);

That in no way uses the generic information, but that wouldn't be available in Java either.