Basically what John is saying is that you can access bound types in the generic signature, and not unbound types. (not to confuse with bounded vs. unbounded types)
I'm tired and should probably sleep now. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:01 PM, John Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With that API you get the variables, not their values... > > There is one trick one can do though. If you subclass a class with a > generic argument you can get the value supplied to the super class. Unless > the value was itself a reference to a variable in the subclass that is. > > BR, > John > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Alexey Zinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> In the discussion of the new Java decompiler that recognizes generics, the >> guys seemed to be surprised that class files can retain that information and >> were wondering why it's not in the reflection API. Without running a real >> test to see what's actually available, the API are most certainly there: >> >> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/GenericDeclaration.html >> >> Alexey >> 2001 Honda CBR600F4i (CCS) >> 1992 Kawasaki EX500 >> http://azinger.blogspot.com >> http://bsheet.sourceforge.net >> http://wcollage.sourceforge.net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Viktor Klang Senior Systems Analyst --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
