Friday, October 7, 2011

Determining if an Object is of primitive type

The types in an Object[] will never really be primitive - because you've got references! Here the type of i is int whereas the type of the object referenced by o is Integer (due to auto-boxing).
It sounds like you need to find out whether the type is "wrapper for primitive". I don't think there's anything built into the standard libraries for this, but it's easy to code up:
import java.util.*;
public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args)        
    {
        System.out.println(isWrapperType(String.class));
        System.out.println(isWrapperType(Integer.class));
    }

    private static final HashSet<Class<?>> WRAPPER_TYPES = getWrapperTypes();

    public static boolean isWrapperType(Class<?> clazz)
    {
        return WRAPPER_TYPES.contains(clazz);
    }

    private static HashSet<Class<?>> getWrapperTypes()
    {
        HashSet<Class<?>> ret = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
        ret.add(Boolean.class);
        ret.add(Character.class);
        ret.add(Byte.class);
        ret.add(Short.class);
        ret.add(Integer.class);
        ret.add(Long.class);
        ret.add(Float.class);
        ret.add(Double.class);
        ret.add(Void.class);
        return ret;
    }
}

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