How to know the class passed as parather to the extended abstract class

Question

I have a class called NewsDAO that extends the abstract class AbstractDAO and pass it the class News as paramether.

public class NewsDAO extends AbstractDAO<News> {
}

What I need is a method to know, starting from all classes called ***DAO, the type of class passed as paramether to AbstractDAO.

I struggled with it for a while but I didn't find the way.

Thank you

I can say reflection can do that but i am not sure, Can you post all your class code — Anas EL KORCHI, May 24 '16 at 10:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '16 at 10:59

1

You can get the full name of the class you are extending by this way:

String fullExtendedClassName = this.getClass().getGenericSuperclass()
            .toString();

Then you just have to format your string and get the info between '<' and '>'

String extendedClassName = fullExtendedClassName.substring(fullExtendedClassName.
indexOf("<") + 1, fullExtendedClassName.indexOf(">"));

Hope it helps you.

answered May 24 '16 at 10:59

Manu AG

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