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

Actually, I suppose you have a field in your class of type T. If there's no field of type T, what's the point of having a generic Type? So, you can simply do an instanceof on that field.

In my case, I have a

List items;

in my class, and I check if the class type is "Locality" by

if (items.get(0) instanceof Locality) ...

Of course, this only works if the total number of possible classes is limited.