Guice TypeLiterals allow you to represent a generic type with specific type arguments, like List<String>, and use that in binding expressions. Suppose that instead of knowing the type argument for the list at compile time, you have a Class object for the type at runtime (in this case, String.class). Is there a way to bind a list of this type?
For example, consider the following method:
public void bindListOfClass(Class<?> clazz, List<?> list) {
bind(????).to(list);
}
What, if anything, can be used in that bind call such that bindListOfClass(String.class, list) is equivalent to bind(new TypeLiteral<List<String>>(){}).to(list)?
I use the following helper method:
import com.google.inject.util.Types;
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static <T> TypeLiteral<List<T>> listOf(Class<T> type) {
return (TypeLiteral<List<T>>)TypeLiteral.get(Types.listOf(type));
}