Given a fully qualified class name, and a number of dimensions, i would like to get the Class name for this class. I believe i can do this like such

public Class<?> getArrayClass(String className, int dimensions) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    Class<?> elementType = Class.forName(className);
    return Array.newInstance(elementType, new int[dimensions]).getClass();
}

However this requires me to create an unneeded instance of the class. Is there a way to do this without creating the instance?

It does not appear that Class.forName("[[[[Ljava/lang/String;") (or a algorithmically generated version) works correctly in all instances from various blog posts i've seen.