Class and static method Class.forName() drive me crazy

Question

this code doesn\'t compile. I\'m wondering what I am doing wrong:

private static Importable getRightInstance(String s) throws Exception {
 Class

        

Answer 1

Use a runtime conversion:

Class   c
    = Class.forName (s).asSubclass (Importable.class);

This will bark with an exception at runtime if s specifies a class that doesn't implement the interface.