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Library for introspecting types with full generic information including resolving of field and method types.

There is a newer version: 1.7.0

package com.fasterxml.classmate;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * This class is used to pass full generics type information, and
 * avoid problems with type erasure (that basically removes most
 * usable type references from runtime Class objects).
 * It is based on ideas from
 * http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html,
 *
 * Usage is by sub-classing: here is one way to instantiate reference
 * to generic type List<Integer>:
 *
 *  GenericType type = new GenericType<List<Integer>>() { };
 *
 * which can be passed to methods that accept GenericReference.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public abstract class GenericType
    implements Serializable, java.lang.reflect.Type
{
    protected GenericType() { }
}