No, it won't. This ClassInfo classInfo = (ClassInfo) configuration.getTypeInfo(JBossEnterpriseBeansMetaData.class); System.out.println("isCollection: " + classInfo.isCollection()); System.out.println("type args: " + classInfo.getActualTypeArguments()); System.out.println("superclass args: " + Arrays.asList(classInfo.getGenericSuperclass().getActualTypeArguments())); results in isCollection: true type args: null superclass args: [ReflectClassInfoImpl(a)f38798{name=org.jboss.ejb.metadata.spec.EnterpriseBeanMetaData}, ReflectClassInfoImpl(a)4b222f{name=org.jboss.ejb.metadata.jboss.JBossEnterpriseBeanMetaData}, ReflectClassInfoImpl(a)b169f8{name=org.jboss.ejb.metadata.spec.EnterpriseBeansMetaData}] Ales Justin wrote: > This is not just Collection specific. > > Doing this (TypeInfo[] types = typeInfo.getActualTypeArguments();) on > JBossEnterpriseBeansMetaData would return you those 3 types: > > (pseudo code ;-) > types[] = {EnterpriseBeanMetaData, JBossEnterpriseBeanMetaData, > EnterpriseBeansMetaData}; > > Rgds, Ales > > >>> > > This approach assumes that the component type can be determined with > > TypeInfo[] types = typeInfo.getActualTypeArguments(); > if (types != null) > elementType = types[0]; > > This won't work for this class > https://svn.jboss.org/repos/common/jbossxb-builder/trunk/src/test/java/or... > > > for which its super class should be checked for type arguments and the > component type is the second argument. > > I guess I'll need to specify the component type with an annotation. But > it would be nice to have something like Class.getComponentType() to work > for generic collections too. > > Alexey > _______________________________________________ > jboss-development mailing list > jboss-development(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development