Passing Inner class name as parameter

Question

Hi,
How i can pass inner class name as parameter which is used to create object of inner class in the receiving method (class.formane(className))
Hope somebody can help me.
Thanks in advance.
Prem

Answer 1

No, because an inner class can never have a constructor that doesn't take any arguments.
Without going through reflection, you always need an instance of the outer class to instantiate the inner class. Internally this instance is passed as a parameter to the inner class's constructor. So to create an instance of an inner class through reflection you need to get the appropriate constructor and call its newInstance method. Here's a complete example:import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
class Outer {
    class Inner {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        Class c = Class.forName("Outer$Inner");
        Constructor cnstrctr = c.getDeclaredConstructor(new Class[] {Outer.class});
        Outer o = new Outer();
        Inner i = (Inner) cnstrctr.newInstance(new Object[]{o});
        System.out.println(i);
}