Description Constantine Plotnikov 2004-12-03 11:59:24 EST

I'm using eclipse-SDK-I20041201-win32.zip.

I'm not sure if this situation is bug or not because javac has the same problem.
Possibly it is actually a bug in Java language. 

It is not possible to specify a literal class constant when template class is
expected. The neither of tests below work. I have encountered this situation in
a comlex scenario with templates that is structurally similar to TestClass3, so
it is real life problem.

Current workaround is to avoid using Class<T> at all, but it removes type checking.

--------- test/TestClass.java ----------------
package test;
import java.util.Set;

class TestClass {
	final Class<Set<Integer>> val = Set.class;
}
--------- test/TestClass2.java ------------------
package test;
import java.util.Set;

class TestClass2 {
	final Class<Set<Integer>> val = Set<Integer>.class;
}
----------test/TestClass3 ---------
package test;
import java.util.LinkedList;

class TestClass3<T> {
	final Class<T> i;
	TestClass3(Class<T> c) {
		i = c;
	}
	public static void main(String args[]) {
		TestClass<LinkedList<String>> test1 = new
TestClass<LinkedList<String>>(LinkedList.class); 
	}
}