Question

I currently have an array of type Class which holds only sub-classes of type BuildingComplex. It basically holds all of the different classes that are allowed to be constructed for game I am creating.

private static Class[] AVAILABLE = new Class[]{
   LumberCamp.class, Farm.class, Storehouse.class, Port.class, Barracks.class, Edifice.class
};

When I want to access a static variable from one of these classes (all which have this static variable due to inheritance from BuildingComplex), I cannot determine how to have AVAILABLE[i] access static variables because I cannot find any resource that will cast Class to a specific class.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

not sure if i completely understand your question, but are you looking for something like this?

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static Class<? extends BuildingComplex>[] AVAILABLE = new Class<? extends BuildingComplex>[]{
   LumberCamp.class, Farm.class, Storehouse.class, Port.class, Barracks.class, Edifice.class
};