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Dynamically loading a class in Java

hi
i am trying to create a method that gets a String argument, and returns a new Object of the same name. i.e. if the argument is “Mod”, the method will return new Mod();

is there a way to do it without a lot of if statements?
thanks!

Answer 1

With reflection:

/**
 * @param type A fully qualified Java type
 */
public Object create(String type) throws Exception {
  return Class.forName(type).newInstance();
}

Read the corresponding Javadocs to understand what’s going on