How to get a Class object with a generic type of list

Question

Hi,
I want to get an instance of a class which is of type List<ABC>. How can I get that ?
What I tried was Class c = List<ABC>.class , bu this is not compiling. I can get new ArrayList<ABC>().getClass() , but the type of that class would be Class<? extends ArrayList<ABC>> but not what I want Class<? extends List<ABC>> ...
Thanks in Advance.
Bhargava

Answer 1

Thanks for so many responses. I understand that you can not get a class instance of type Class<List<E>>. Am I correct?
My use case was something like this:
Class X implements Y<SrcType, DescType> {
  public DestType transform(SrcType src) { ---- }
}Now I want to write a factory which maintains a list of implemenrations of interface Y in a map. For e.g. {List(SrcType,DestType) -> X}. This factory provides one method with the following signature:
Class Yfactory {
   public Y transform(SrcType o, Class destType) {
    //This figures out which transformer to apply based on SrcType and destType and gives it back.
}Now, there is one case where a transformer transforms from type A to List<B> (X implements Y<A, List<B>>) . How should I add it to the map in factory and how do I call the factory's transform method so that it choose this transformer?