Name: joT67522 Date: 11/05/97


I think you ought to make the following
succeed for all possible c:

Class.forName(c.getClass().toString())

Right now, it won't work for primitive types
like "int".
(Review ID: 19065)
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[another user. joon.oh@Eng 1997-11-05]

Invoking the Class.forName(String) method with
the string representation of any primitive
type's classname throws a ClassNotFoundException.
This is highly unexpected behavior since there
are Class objects for all primitives, including
void.

The following code snippet illustrates the bug:
<code><pre>
{
Class[] primitives = new Class[]
{
Boolean.TYPE,
Byte.TYPE,
Character.TYPE,
Double.TYPE,
Float.TYPE,
Integer.TYPE,
Long.TYPE,
Short.TYPE,
Void.TYPE
};
for (int i = 0; i < primitives.length; i++)
{
try
{
System.out.println(Class.forName(primitives[i].getName()).getName());
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
</pre></code>