Testing whether an object is a Java primitive array in Clojure

Question

What\'s the best way to detect whether an object is a Java primitive array in Clojure?

The reason I need this is to do some special handling for primitive arrays, which

Answer 1

you can use reflection once to get the class from the name, cache this and then compare the rest to that

(def array-of-ints-type (Class/forName "[I"))
(def array-of-bytes-type (Class/forName "[B")) 
...

(= (type (into-array Integer/TYPE [1 3 4])) array-of-ints-type)
true