Re: Create an Object from an Array Class

Joshua Cranmer wrote:
What you are probable intending is something like this:

Method m = Class.forName("some.pkg.Type").getMethod("main",
String[].class);
m.invoke(null, new String[0]);

If the type of array must be determined at runtime, the following idiom can also be used:

// arrayType is a class representing the type we want.
Object array = Array.newInstance(arrayType, 0); // Empty array

Array has another overloaded version that handles multiple array dimensions.

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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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