I'm having to do some interop with a proprietary - and erroneously 
documented - Java SDK. There's a class C with a method described as 
'translate(java.lang.String). Trying to call the method with a Clojure on
an object of class C I got a 'no matching method found' error.

So I used the following snippet from stack overflow to print out the entire 
collection of methods on the object (useful enough to repeat here):

(ns ...
  (:require  [clojure.reflect :as r]
                 [clojure.pprint :refer [print-table]))
(print-table
  (sort-by :name
    (filter :exception-types (:members (r/reflect (type my-object))))))

What I discovered was that the translate method had a signature reported as 
'translate(java.lang.String<>)', not a mere quirk of the reflection process 
- there were plenty of other methods taking the usual java.lang.String 
method as well.

Does anyone know how how to create a java.lang.String<> ? Ideally how to 
convert a Clojure "some string" which is a java.lang.String to a 
java.lang.String<>.
Also, although this is merely idle curiosity on my part, does anyone know 
what a java.lang.String<> actually is? The <> suggests a generic, but 
java.lang.String is not a container - although the <> is empty of course.


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