How can a genericized class determine its own generic type?

Question

Hi, I have a generecized class:
class Foo<T> {
    public Class myClass() {
       // basically want to return T.class
}Is there a way to do this?
What if Foo implements FooIF, which is also paramterized with T, can I then use this.getClass().getGenericInterfaces() to find ParametrizedType and cast it to class?
Thanks,
Konstantin

Answer 1

Hi, I have a generecized class:
Is there a way to do this?
class Foo<T> {
    private Class<T> myClass;
    public Foo(Class<T> t){
         myClass=t;
}>
What if Foo implements FooIF, which is also
paramterized with T, can I then use
this.getClass().getGenericInterfaces() to find
ParametrizedType and cast it to class?If you do class Foo<T> implements FooIF<String> then you can get String back (but you don't cast ParametrizedType), otherwise that will just give you "T".