Getting Field Information Using Java Reflection

[YerMom]

I need to get a list of field names and their types within a class and do formatted output.

Often the type is a generic such as the following:

java.util.List<myType>

In this case, I would want to print a line that looks like:

java.util.List<myType> myFieldName

Questions:

1) How do I determine whether the type is a generic?
2) How do I determine and what the parameterized type is? By "parameterized type," I mean the "myType" in the example above.
3) Are the angle brackets available in any list of modifiers for the field?

I'm using the following loop to get my information:

Field[] f = myClass.getDeclaredFields();
for ( Field aField : f)
{
  String fldName = aField.getName();
  Class fldTypeCls = aField.getType();
  String fldType = fldTypeCls.getSimpleName();
}

Let me know if my post does not make sense -- when it came time to write this, I had a hard time finding the words!

Thanks,
Steve

 

[stefanwagner]

Generic informations are only available at compiletime - aren't they?
So they're erased before running and not available anymore.

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[YerMom]

Thanks Stefan.