How to cast to a user given class..

Question

Hi all....
Can u help me to create a generic method which take a class name
as String and cast one object to this class type and return.
Note :class name is provided as String.

Answer 1

Hi Suresh.... you can't do such a thing.
public class Foo {
     public static Object castTo(Object obj, String className) throws Exception {
          Class clazz     = Class.forName(className);
          return clazz.cast(obj);
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          Test2 s = new Test2();
          Object o = castTo(s, "Test1");
          System.out.println(o);
class Test1 {
     public String toString(){
          return this.getClass().toString();
class Test2 extends Test1 { }