Method getArrayClass

output/java_guava/1.4.18/Types.java:547–552

Returns the Class object of arrays with componentType.

(Class<?> componentType)

  static Class<?> getArrayClass(Class<?> componentType) {
    // TODO(user): This is not the most efficient way to handle generic
    // arrays, but is there another way to extract the array class in a
    // non-hacky way (i.e. using String value class names- "[L...")?
    return Array.newInstance(componentType, 0).getClass();
  }

  // TODO(benyu): Once we are on Java 8, delete this abstraction