pa1b parameter type formatting

[Mark Tyrrell]

Is there a way to get clean parameter types from the reflection API?

Of the methods available for getting parameter types, one lacks information about <Generics> while the other prefixes class names by the word class. And neither appear to handle array syntax well (prefixing by [L instead of suffixing with []). I've gotten the output that I want through string manipulation, but I was wondering if there might be a cleaner way to do this.

[Betty O'Neil]

I'm afraid there is some non-pretty string manipulation needed to
get everything you need. --Betty O.

[Max Ward]

Use Method.getParameterTypes() to get the array of Class<?> and then I think Class<?>.getName() will give you the parameter type without the prefix "class".

[mohamed]

Using the above still results with the contrived stuff. For example
for main it results with [Ljava.lang.String;. We still need more
String manipulation to get to String[] unless some one else found an
alternative.