Re: Create instance of generic class at runtime, supplying specializer?

Oh, the class is abstract, so you're meant to provide A by subclassing it,
not by instantiating. In that case, the value of A *is* retained at runtime
and is available for reflection, even if method signatures are still erased
to Object.
In ABCL there used to be some runtime-class machinery that was just a
sketch... I don't know if it's still there and has enough plumbing to allow
you to subclass a generic class providing type specifiers.

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 18:49, Mark Evenson <[email protected]> wrote:

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> http://owlcs.github.io/owlapi/apidocs_4/org/semanticweb/owlapi/util/InferredObjectPropertyAxiomGenerator.html
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> > Type Parameters:
> > A - the axiom type
> > Question is: how do I supply the axiom type when creating an instance.
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> Can you point me to some code that does the setup?  Somewhere in lsw2?
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> Alessio is correct that the compiler erases types, but I have sucessfully
> created instances that switch such methods over the years working on
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> so I should be able to get this to work for you.  Unfortunately the margin
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> too small to contain a proof of this statement without further annotation…
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> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before but there is
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