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_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c1) posted by **[email protected]** on 2014-01-24 at 10:09 PM_ --- _(No comment entered for this change.)_ --- **Labels:** `Package-Reflect`, `Type-Addition`

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c2) posted by **archie.cobbs** on 2014-01-24 at 10:15 PM_ --- Snooping through the code, it looks like such a method as suggested at the end of comment #1 already...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c3) posted by **archie.cobbs** on 2014-01-27 at 04:46 PM_ --- Just to clarify things a bit here, as this issue has evolved and the issue title is no longer...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c4) posted by **archie.cobbs** on 2014-02-22 at 09:29 PM_ --- Please change the title of this feature request to:   Make method TypeToken.toGenericType() public Thanks.

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c5) posted by **[email protected]** on 2014-02-25 at 04:54 PM_ --- _(No comment entered for this change.)_

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c6) posted by **[email protected]** on 2014-06-25 at 08:57 PM_ --- Exposing toGenericType() sounds reasonable. Although can you show us how it's going to be used in this use case?...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c7) posted by **archie.cobbs** on 2014-06-26 at 12:11 AM_ --- As mentioned above, the original motivating example is a TypeToken parser (converts String -> TypeToken). I tried to implement...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c8) posted by **[email protected]** on 2014-06-27 at 01:26 AM_ --- I know the dependency is kinda weird. But ignore that for a moment, if you had Guice's Types.newParamterizedType(), would...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c9) posted by **[email protected]** on 2014-06-27 at 01:48 AM_ --- Oh. I guess you sort of implied it's what you are going to do: use clazz.getTypeParameters() to get the...

_[Original comment](https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1645#c10) posted by **archie.cobbs** on 2014-06-27 at 02:21 AM_ --- Exposing newParameterizedType() would work. I don't currently use Guice, so that option would be inconvenient. Seems like guava should...