How to get the type of an object?

[Freewind]

I have an instance of some class, how to get its type?

In java:

    obj.getClass()

How to do it in xtend?

[Sebastian Zarnekow]

Did you try obj.getClass() ? ;-)

[Sven Efftinge]

obj.getClass()

:-)

also

obj.getClass

and

obj.^class

(the '^' is required to escape identifiers conflicting with keywords)

The reason why you didn't find it in the first place, is that content assist doesn't propose it.
It's know bug and will be fixed soon.

Sven

[Freewind]

You are right :-p

[Zsombor]

It's a pretty common question, as it doesn't have an obvious solution. Is there any fundemantal issue, supporting the java like myObj.getClass and String.class expressions?

Regards
Zsombor

[Sebastian Zarnekow]

obj.getClass does the job as expected. String.class was more difficult to get right from a technical perspective thus we decided to go for typeof(String) instead. I actually prefer that syntax over String.class.

Regards,

Sebastian