How do you access a generic class object?

Question

How can I access the class object for Generics?

I am currently doing this as follows:

List<String> list= new ArrayList<String>();
list.getClass();

This is normal? Or what should be the way?

Answer 1

This will return the same as ArrayList.class. Java generators erase the generic type at runtime; in other words, from a "list" you will never know that the type of an element is String. There's a great FAQ on this in

http://www.angelikalanger.com/GenericsFAQ/JavaGenericsFAQ.html

Answer 2

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