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 assume that, since you have a generic class, you would have a variable like that:

private T t;

(this variable needs to take a value at the constructor)

In that case you can simply create the following method:

Class getClassOfInstance()
{
    return (Class) t.getClass();
}

Hope it helps!