Re: Create an Object from an Array Class

Thanks for the clarifications. I hope that my phrasing of the question
shows where I am stuck.

What I am intending to do is:

//here is how my program is flowing

String className = namesOfAllClasses[j]; //I have it coming through a
loop

Class class1 = Class.forName(className);

Fields fields = class1.getDeclaredFields(); //assuming that all fields
are Class type (not primitive)

for (int i=0; i < fields.length; i++) {
    Class newClass = Class.forName(fields[i].getType().getName()); //
create a class of the field type
    Object newObject = newClass.newInstance(); //create an object of
the new field type
    Method m = newClass.getMethod(methodName, newClass); /*get method;
we can assume it's "set"+fields[i].getName()*/
    Object arguments[] = {"dummy"};
    m.invoke(newObject, arguments);
}

/*
When a field is someClass[], I am facing troubles since now the
    fields[i].getType().getName() = L[some.pkg.name.someClass;
In this case:
    Class newClass = Class.forName(fields[i].getType().getName()) is
returning with a result (no exceptions)

But using the newInstance is generating exceptions since it's a
special-case class as you explained.

You have used
m.invoke(null, new String[0]); //it gave me back a
nullPointerRxception even though it's a static method

My problem is that the second parameter in invoke does not have to be
a String type for the parameter object but is an object instance of
the L[some.pkg.name.someClass; (object array)

Example: This method looks like this in ClassName.java

    public void setsomeObjectProperty(some.pkg.name.someClass[]
someObjectProperty) {
        this.someObjectProperty= someObjectProperty;
    }

Any tips?
*/

Thanks again for your time

On Oct 30, 5:53 pm, Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...@verizon.invalid> wrote: