Re: Type of class with Class.newInstance() ?

• Subject: Re: Type of class with Class.newInstance() ?
• From: PA <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:42:18 +0200
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On Apr 13, 2005, at 06:44, Joachim Haagen Bøe wrote:

But what I want to do is to be able to figure out the type of newObject, cast it to that type and edit it before it is used.

You cannot cast random objects dynamically.

But if you know the object class, you can cast it directly:

String  aClassName = "java.lang.String";
Class   aClass = Class.forName( aClassName );
Object  anObject = aClass.newInstance();
String  aString = (String) anObject;

Cheers

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