Question

I want to create a class in Java from a classname and an variable number of arguments (i.e. an Object[] args with variable length). Is there any way to achieve that?

Basically, the method would look like this in Javascript

function createClass(classname, args) {
    protoObject = Object.create(window[classname].prototype);
    return window[classname].apply(protoObject,args) || protoObject;
}
// I want to be able to do this:
var resultClass = createClass("someClass", someArrayOfArgs);

A simpler function to only call a function would look like

function callFunction(functionName, args) {
    return window[functionName].apply(null,args);
}

Thanks!

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For clarification, this would be some example usage in Javascript:

function multiplyResult(var1,var2) { 
    return var1*var2;
}
var result = callFunction("multiplyResult", ["5", "2"]); // == 10

function multiplyObject(var1,var2) { 
    var result = var1 * var2;
    this.getResult = function() { return result }; 
}
var result = createClass("multiplyObject", ["5", "2"]).getResult(); // == 10

Answer 1

It turns out that you can simply provide an Object[] to the invoke() function and that it will work exactly like .apply() in Javascript. Take the following function.

public int multiply(int int1, int int2) {
    return int1*int2;
}

From the same class, it works to call the function like

Object result = this.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("multiply",classes).invoke(this,ints);

with classes and ints being something like

Class[] classes = new Class[] {int.class, int.class};
Object[] ints = new Object[] {2,3};