Obtaining the array Class of a component type

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One thing that comes to mind is:

java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance(componentType, 0).getClass();

But it creates an unnecessary instance.

Btw, this appears to work:

Class clazz = Class.forName("[L" + componentType.getName() + ";");

Here is test. It prints true:

Integer[] ar = new Integer[1];
Class componentType = ar.getClass().getComponentType();
Class clazz = Class.forName("[L" + componentType.getName() + ";");

System.out.println(clazz == ar.getClass());

The documentation of Class#getName() defines strictly the format of array class names:

If this class object represents a class of arrays, then the internal form of the name consists of the name of the element type preceded by one or more ‘[‘ characters representing the depth of the array nesting.

The Class.forName(..) approach won’t directly work for primitives though – for them you’d have to create a mapping between the name (int) and the array shorthand – (I)

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