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Java program to get the name of the generic superclass

Java example to get the name of the generic superclass.
Submitted by Nidhi, on May 04, 2022

Problem statement

In this program, we will get the name of the generic superclass using the getGenericSuperclass() method and print the result.

Source Code

The source code to get the name of the generic superclass is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

// Java program to get the name of the 
// generic superclass

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
    Class cls1 = Class.forName("Main");
    Class cls2 = Class.forName("java.util.ArrayList");
    Class cls3 = Class.forName("java.lang.Object");

    System.out.println("The generic superclass is: " + cls1.getGenericSuperclass());
    System.out.println("The generic superclass is: " + cls2.getGenericSuperclass());
    System.out.println("The generic superclass is: " + cls3.getGenericSuperclass());
  }
}

Output

The generic superclass is: class java.lang.Object
The generic superclass is: java.util.AbstractList<E>
The generic superclass is: null

Explanation

In the above program, we created a public class Main that contains a main() method. The main() method is the entry point for the program. Here we get the name of the generic superclass using the getGenericSuperclass () method and printed the result.

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