Java class object from type variable

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Published on 2010-05-10T08:24:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 8:34 UTC
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Is there a way to get Class object from the type variable in Java generic class? Something like that:

public class Bar extends Foo<T> {
    public Class getParameterClass() {
        return T.class; // doesn't compile
    }
}

This type information is available at compile time and therefore should not be affected by type erasure, so, theoretically, there should be a way to accomplish this. Does it exist?

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