[LANG-351] Extension to ClassUtils: Obtain the primitive class from a wrapper

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
• Reporter: Oliver Heger
• Created: 03/Aug/07 19:51
• Updated: 10/Mar/11 22:27
• Resolved: 11/Oct/07 01:52

Description

For some tasks related to reflection and method invocation I need the counter part of the ClassUtils.primitiveToWrapper() method.

My use case is that I need to invoke a method, and I only have the name and an array of parameter values (not the exact parameter types). So I have to check based on the types of the current parameters if a method signature is compatible. If the signature contains primitive types, the current parameter values will be wrapper types; these have to be unboxed.