Question

I need to call a super constructor that requires me to pass a .class reference of a generic type. How can I achieve this with Java?

The constructor wants to have..

Class<List<MyType>>

As generics are erased at runtime, I have no clue how to satisfy the constructor.

List<MyType>.class // does not work ;-)

Answer 1

Like this (cast to the Class raw type first):

@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
Class<List<MyType>> clazz = (Class) List.class