Re: Define Type at runtime
BGB wrote:
Lew wrote:
John wrote:
If I have a method:
public void someMethod(Object o){
...
Entity<T> entity;
....
}
How could I define at runtime the type T if I have an Object?
You can do an illegal cast with the help of '@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")' and a 'catch ( ClassCastException exc )'.
You can under certain circumstances use a run-time type token of type 'Class<T>'.
You can write your method to be type-safe in the first place and avoid the problem.
Without some context we can't know what you really want. Your question is far too non-specific.
and, probably, not to forget "instanceof".
That's pretty useless in this context.
eg, [sic] rather than, say:
Object obja;
try {
SomeObject objb=(SomeObject)obja;
...
}catch(ClassCastException ex)
{
}
one could be like:
if(obja instanceof SomeObject)
{
SomeObject objb=(SomeObject)obja;
...
}
which could be more useful if one wants to do the types N-way...
if(...)
{
...
}else if(...)
{
...
}else ...
or such...
That's bad advice on several fronts. First of all, the OP was asking about restoring generics information, for which 'instanceof' is not useful, and second, multi-'if' constructs on type are a red flag of bad design. Don't recommend bad design.
--
Lew
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