Here you can find the source of convertToPrimitive(Class type)
public static final Class convertToPrimitive(Class type)
//package com.java2s; /** //w w w .jav a 2 s .c om * Copyright (c) 2005-2014 VedantaTree all rights reserved. * * This file is part of ExpressionOasis. * * ExpressionOasis 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. * * ExpressionOasis 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. IN NO EVENT SHALL * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES * OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE * OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.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 ExpressionOasis. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * Please consider to contribute any enhancements to upstream codebase. * It will help the community in getting improved code and features, and * may help you to get the later releases with your changes. */ import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; public class Main { private static Map<Class, Class> wrapperToprimitives = new HashMap<Class, Class>(); public static final Class convertToPrimitive(Class type) { if (type == null || type.isPrimitive()) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Given class type is wrong. Either it is null or is a primitive. given-class[" + type + "]"); } return wrapperToprimitives.get(type); } }