How to pass a Class as method parameter?

Question

I have the following class hierarchy :

Super Class and subclasses:

public class SuperClass(){

// attributes and accessors


public class Class1() extends SuperClass {

// attributes and accessors
}

public class Class2() extends SuperClass {

// attributes and accessors
}

public class Class3() extends SuperClass {

// attributes and accessors
}

I have also a method in other class to create the subclasses :

SuperClass createMySubclass(){

}

I wondering how i can pass in this method parameter the class i want to create and create his instance ? I don't know how to do it :

I would like to to do something like :

    SuperClass createMySubclass(Class myClass){

      SuperClass type = new myClass.getConstructor();

    }

Is it possible ?

Answer 1

Given your scenario, as every class inhertis from SuperClass, you can have method with a SuperClass as a parameter, and it could recieve any of its subclasses.

Example:

   SuperClass createMySubclass(SuperClass myClass){

      SuperClass type = myClass;

    }

and somewhere in your main, you should have something like this:

Class1 mySubClass = new Class1();
SuperClass mySuperClass = new SuperClass();
mySuperClass.createMySubClass(mySubClass);