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Reputation: 99

Instantiating Class Object without using Reflection

As far as I know, what I'm trying to do (Title) is impossible. However, here are 3 small samples of code - The first one being what I have right now, the second being what I'd like to have, the third one being a way to achieve it that I don't want to use due to reflection. I'm wondering if there is a way to restructure my code to come closer to the second example. There are a few assumptions made: Each class that will be used here has only one constructor, and knows exactly what objects it needs. The Object[] is because I don't know everything at runtime.

1.

Object o; Object[] params; String myString;
switch(myString){
case "ClassA": o = new ClassA(params);
case "ClassB": o = new ClassB(params);
//ETC
}

2.

Object o; Object[] params; String myString;
HashMap<String, Class<?>> map;
o = new map.get(myString)(params); //Obviously doesnt work

3.

Object o; Object[] params; String myString;
HashMap<String, Class<?>> map;
o = map.get(myString).getConstructors()[0].newInstance(params);

Note that I actually lied above. What I have right now is not 1, but 3. I can't have 1 because I can't hardcode all classnames. I'd like to have 2 though. Any suggestions?

Some clarifications:

The HashMap in examples 2 and 3 contains pairs of string representations of the classname, and actual class-objects.

Also, it is filled at runtime (Obviously), meaning that I know of all possible classes I would want to instantiate before executing the code above, however I can't hardcode any of them: They're loaded by file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 609

Answers (1)

Grzegorz G&#243;rkiewicz
Grzegorz G&#243;rkiewicz

Reputation: 4586

I am sorry to inform:
it is not possible in Java.

Write your own language that does not follow the principle of bivalence, where you can instantiate a class with reflection but without use of reflection. Good luck.

Upvotes: 1

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