Question

I have this code below (which is deserializing a class):

....
Type type = field.getGenericType();
if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) {
    ParameterizedType ptype = (ParameterizedType) type;
if(c.getSimpleName().equals("Vector")){
    Class pta = (Class) ptype.getActualTypeArguments()[0];
    Vector<what to put here> v = (Vector)field.get(obj);
    if(v == null){
        v = new Vector<what to put here>();
        field.set(obj, v);
    }
....

My question is how do I change the Vector to take a certain type of data just from knowing the class name of what it took before (which would be the pta var)?

Answer 1

Generics are resolved at compile time, so there is no way to do this as you have listed. Just use a Vector<Object> or Vector