Quick solution that worked for me.
I see there is already an answer for this and this may not even be the best way to go about it. Also, for my solution you'll need Gson.
However, I ran into a situation where I needed to create an instance of a generic class of type java.lang.reflect.Type.
The following code will create an instance of the class you want with null instance variables.
T object = new Gson().fromJson("{}", myKnownType);
Where myKnownType is known before hand and obtained via TypeToken.getType().
You can now set appropriate properties on this object. Again, this may not be the best way to do this but it works as a quick solution if that's what you need.
