Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* GRANITE DATA SERVICES Copyright (C) 2007 ADEQUATE SYSTEMS SARL This file is part of Granite Data Services. Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.lang.reflect.Array; import java.lang.reflect.Constructor; import java.lang.reflect.GenericArrayType; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable; import java.lang.reflect.WildcardType; public class Main { public static Class<?> classOfType(Type type) { if (type instanceof Class<?>) return (Class<?>) type; if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) return (Class<?>) ((ParameterizedType) type).getRawType(); if (type instanceof WildcardType) { // Forget lower bounds and only deal with first upper bound... Type[] ubs = ((WildcardType) type).getUpperBounds(); if (ubs.length > 0) return classOfType(ubs[0]); } if (type instanceof GenericArrayType) { Class<?> ct = classOfType(((GenericArrayType) type).getGenericComponentType()); return (ct != null ? Array.newInstance(ct, 0).getClass() : Object[].class); } if (type instanceof TypeVariable) { // Only deal with first (upper) bound... Type[] ubs = ((TypeVariable<?>) type).getBounds(); if (ubs.length > 0) return classOfType(ubs[0]); } // Should never append... return Object.class; } public static Object newInstance(String type) throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException { return forName(type).newInstance(); } public static <T> T newInstance(String type, Class<T> cast) throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException { return forName(type, cast).newInstance(); } public static Object newInstance(String type, Class<?>[] argsClass, Object[] argsValues) throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException { return newInstance(forName(type), argsClass, argsValues); } public static <T> T newInstance(Class<T> type, Class<?>[] argsClass, Object[] argsValues) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException { T instance = null; try { Constructor<T> constructorDef = type.getConstructor(argsClass); instance = constructorDef.newInstance(argsValues); } catch (SecurityException e) { throw new InstantiationException(e.getMessage()); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { throw new InstantiationException(e.getMessage()); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { throw new InstantiationException(e.getMessage()); } catch (InvocationTargetException e) { throw new InstantiationException(e.getMessage()); } return instance; } public static Class<?> forName(String type) throws ClassNotFoundException { return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(type); } @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static <T> Class<T> forName(String type, Class<T> cast) throws ClassNotFoundException { return (Class<T>) Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(type); } public static Constructor<?> getConstructor(String type, Class<?>[] paramTypes) throws ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException { return getConstructor(forName(type), paramTypes); } public static <T> Constructor<T> getConstructor(Class<T> type, Class<?>[] paramTypes) throws NoSuchMethodException { return type.getConstructor(paramTypes); } }