Finding type of primitive at runtime using Reflection !!

Hi,
Is there any way to get the type of primitive using reflection.
Consider the scenario :
String classType = "java.lang.Integer";
String paramValue = "10";
Class classObj = Class.forName( classType );
Object obj = classObj.getConstructor( new Class[] {String.class } ).
newInstance(new Object[] { paramValue }) ) ;
java.lang.Integer defines a variable called TYPE which returns the type, but in the above line newInstance returns an Object and not Integer
Is there a way to find the type of primitive from the above code
considering that the classType variable can change?
Any help is greatly appreciated .
Regards,
Harsha

Your scenario is wrong, you are creating an instance of Integer which is not primitive.
You need to create a scenario like this..
When querying a class for a Field then you can determine if the Field is primitive
Class clazz = obj; //** Where obj is any object
Field f = clazz.getDeclaredField( "field" );
Class fieldType = f.getType();
if( f.getType().isPrimitive() ) {
if( fieldType.equals( Byte.TYPE ) {
System.out.println( "Field: field is byte primitive" );
//** repeat for each type
//** get the value of the field for obj and print it out
System.out.println( "Field value = " + f.getValue( obj ) );Obviously this is not really useful when you want to do something sensible with the value of the field.
You need to expand on what it is you are trying to achieve.

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