Re: Reflecting generics


"Domagoj Klepac" wrote:
I'm wondering if this is possible - and after much digging, it seems
that it isn't. I have the following piece of code:

ArrayList<String> stringArray = new ArrayList<String>();
Class c = stringArray.getClass();

Is it possible to, somehow, get "java.lang.String" from c?
Or is that information lost after compiling?


Generics are implemented by "type erasure." At runtime, any reference to
"java.lang.String" is long-since gone, so it can't be returned by any
reflective method.

-- Adam Maass


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