How to Get class of Elements that List Contains?

Question

I have a list like that:

private List myList = new ArrayList();

I want to get the .class of T. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can't because of type erasure. The generic type is not known at runtime (it's 'erased'), it's only used at compile time.

This is a major difference between java generics and c# generics for example.