How do I pass a class as a parameter in Java?

Question

Is there any way to pass class as a parameter in Java and fire some methods from that class?

void main()
{
    callClass(that.class)
}

void callClass(???? c         


        

Answer 1

Se these: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/extra/generics/methods.html

here is the explaniation for the template methods.

Answer 2

Have a look at the reflection tutorial and reflection API of Java:

https://community.oracle.com/docs/DOC-983192enter link description here

and

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html

Answer 3

Class as paramater. Example.

Three classes:

class TestCar {

    private int UnlockCode = 111;
    protected boolean hasAirCondition = true;
    String brand = "Ford";
    public String licensePlate = "Arizona 111";
}

--

class Terminal {

public void hackCar(TestCar car) {
     System.out.println(car.hasAirCondition);
     System.out.println(car.licensePlate);
     System.out.println(car.brand);
     }
}

--

class Story {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        TestCar testCar = new TestCar();
        Terminal terminal = new Terminal();
        terminal.hackCar(testCar);
    }

}

---

In class Terminal method hackCar() take class TestCar as parameter.

Answer 4

This kind of thing is not easy. Here is a method that calls a static method:

public static Object callStaticMethod(
    // class that contains the static method
    final Class<?> clazz,
    // method name
    final String methodName,
    // optional method parameters
    final Object... parameters) throws Exception{
    for(final Method method : clazz.getMethods()){
        if(method.getName().equals(methodName)){
            final Class<?>[] paramTypes = method.getParameterTypes();
            if(parameters.length != paramTypes.length){
                continue;
            }
            boolean compatible = true;
            for(int i = 0; i < paramTypes.length; i++){
                final Class<?> paramType = paramTypes[i];
                final Object param = parameters[i];
                if(param != null && !paramType.isInstance(param)){
                    compatible = false;
                    break;
                }

            }
            if(compatible){
                return method.invoke(/* static invocation */null,
                    parameters);
            }
        }
    }
    throw new NoSuchMethodException(methodName);
}

---

Update: Wait, I just saw the gwt tag on the question. You can't use reflection in GWT