Problem compiling with Generic

[Macadrian]

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I have a problem in compilation with the following code, I tried a lot of possibilities except the one I corrected my problem (I have missed something). The code in question, I deliberately simplify my code

import java.util.*;
 
public class BugCompiler
{
  interface IObjectFactory<T>
  {
    public T createObject();
    public Class<T> getObjectClass(); 
  }
 
  class StringObjectFactory implements IObjectFactory<String>
  {
    @Override
    public String createObject()
    {
      return "test";
    }
 
    @Override
    public Class<String> getObjectClass()
    {
      return String.class;
    }
  }
 
  class ArrayListObjectFactory implements IObjectFactory<ArrayList<String>>
  {
    @Override
    public ArrayList<String> createObject()
    {
      return new ArrayList<String>();
    }
 
    @Override
    public Class<ArrayList<String>> getObjectClass()
    {
      return ArrayList.class;   
    }
  }
}

[opaper]

It's not very clean but the following code compiles

public Class<ArrayList<String>> getObjectClass()
    {
      return (Class<ArrayList<String>>) new ArrayList<String>().getClass();
    }

[CitricAcid]

Indeed it is not very clean. In the present circumstances, Class <ArrayList <String>> does not exist!

At runtime you can not know the typeage Generics of a class!

[Macadrian]

Is it not possible to change my interface to be cleaner code? Is there a way by changing my interface to define the class?

interface IObjectFactory<T>
{
    public T createObject();
    public Class<T> getObjectClass();
}

[CitricAcid]

You can try by fiddling a bit:

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  private <R> R unsafeCast(Object t) {
	  return (R) t;
  }
 
  public Class<ArrayList<String>> getObjectClass() {
	  return unsafeCast(ArrayList.class);
  }

But in the type ArrayList<String> means nothing to the performance.