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instanceof – incompatible conditional operand types

I am trying to use below code and getting compilation error.

Class<A> clas; //this is passed from service 
clas instanceof SomeClass

This gives ma the following compilation error:

incompatible conditional operand types Class and SomeClass

Please help me!

Answer 1

instanceof used to check that given object is of type Class(SomeClass – right side parameter). You cannot use Class to check that instanceof another class. To check class equality or assainability you can use SomeClass.isAssignableFrom(clas)