Get type of a generic parameter in Java with reflection

Question

Is it possible to get the type of a generic parameter?

An example:

public final class Voodoo {
    public static void chill(List aListWithTy         


        

Answer 1

Because of type erasure the only way to know the type of the list would be to pass in the type as a parameter to the method:

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        doStuff(new LinkedList(), String.class);

    }

    public static  void doStuff(List list, Class clazz) {

    }

}