How do I get a class instance of generic type T?

Question

I have a generics class, Foo. In a method of Foo, I want to get the class instance of type T, but I just can\'t call T.

Answer 1

I have an (ugly but effective) solution for this problem, which I used recently:

import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;


public static  Class getGenericClass()
{
    __ ins = new __();
    TypeVariable[] cls = ins.getClass().getTypeParameters(); 

    return (Class)cls[0].getClass();
}

private final class __ // generic helper class which does only provide type information
{
    private __()
    {
    }
}