[LANG-919] Provide TypeLiteral class similar to javax.enterprise.util.TypeLiteral

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.2
• Component/s: lang.reflect.*
• Assignee: Matthew Jason Benson
• Reporter: Matthew Jason Benson
• Created: 20/Sep/13 16:03
• Updated: 15/Oct/13 02:33
• Resolved: 14/Oct/13 16:30

Description

This is more or less a necessity for thorough typesafe APIs that handle more than just Class types, and IMO clearly falls within the mandate of Commons Lang to provide the items that are "missing" from the JDK. The suggested patch also includes a Typed interface that generalizes TypeLiteral in an extensible way.