com.fasterxml.classmate

Class GenericType<T>

java.lang.Object

com.fasterxml.classmate.GenericType<T>

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.reflect.Type

public abstract class GenericType<T>
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable, java.lang.reflect.Type

This class is used to pass full generics type information, and avoid problems with type erasure (that basically removes most usable type references from runtime Class objects). It is based on ideas from http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html,

Usage is by sub-classing: here is one way to instantiate reference to generic type List<Integer>:

  GenericType type = new GenericType<List<Integer>>() { };

which can be passed to methods that accept GenericReference.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	GenericType()

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.reflect.Type

getTypeName

Constructor Detail

GenericType

protected GenericType()