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

Just for me reading this snippet of code was hard, I just divided it into 2 readable lines :

// assuming that the Generic Type parameter is of type "T"
ParameterizedType p = (ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass();
Class c =(Class)p.getActualTypeArguments()[0];

I wanted to create an instance of the Type parameter without having any parameters to my method :

publc T getNewTypeInstance(){
    ParameterizedType p = (ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass();
    Class c =(Class)p.getActualTypeArguments()[0];

    // for me i wanted to get the type to create an instance
    // from the no-args default constructor
    T t = null;
    try{
        t = c.newInstance();
    }catch(Exception e){
        // no default constructor available
    }
    return t;
}