Question

I have an interface called Model. It has a method called deserialize()

public interface Model 
{
   public void deserialize(String s);
}

There are many implementations of the Model interface.

I have a special class called Utilities that works on Model objects (i.e. implementations of the Model interface).

In Utilities, I have a function that takes a specified class, an creates a list of objects of that class.

 public static <T extends Model> List<T> getList(StringReader reader, Class <T> theClass)
{
   ...
} 

I have two classes A and B that both implement Model. In class A, I have the following code –

A
{
  int x;
  int y;
  int z;
  ArrayList<B> listOfBObjects;


public void deserialize(String dataString)
 {
    ...
    ...
    listOfBObjects = Utilities.getList();  <-- here I want to specify "B". How to do that?
 }
}

How to specify “B” as an argument to the getList() function above?

Answer 1

listOfBObjects = Utilities.getList(new StringReader(dataString), B.class);

But I answered this in your previous question…