I'm not sure what scenario you are envisioning. Type erasure does not completely eradicate generic type information, reflection can still be used to infer gener

I'm not sure what scenario you are envisioning. Type erasure does not completely eradicate generic type information, reflection can still be used to infer generic usage for deserialization and dependency injection (and is done in Jackson and Spring). To make your life easier in doing so, there is: https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools