Accessing Elements of a Reflected ArrayList

[FALL3N1]

hey there
I have a reflected a class to get a list of it's vars and vals... I've done this with If-statements looping through each var. I can get vals for the other kinds of vars:

if (type.equals("class java.io.File"))  
    {  
    try {  
     Object tween = field.get(o);  
     File castFile = (File)(tween);  
     val = castFile.getAbsolutePath();  
     type = "File";  
        
    } catch (Exception ee) {}  
       
    } else if (type.equals("class [Ljava.lang.String;")) {  
      try {  
      Object object = field.get(o);  
      String[] backToStringArray = (String[])(object);  
         
      val = "";  
      for (int i = 0; i < backToStringArray.length; i++)  
      {  
         val += backToStringArray[i] + ", ";  
      }  
         
      val = val.substring(0, val.length() - 2);  
         
       val = "{" + val + "}";  
       type = "String[]";  
              
      } catch (Exception ee) {}  
       
    } else if (type.equals("class java.lang.String")) {  
        try {  
           Object obj = field.get(o);  
           val = obj.toString();  
           type = "String";  
        
    } catch (Exception ee) {}  
       
     } else if (type.equals("class java.util.ArrayList")) {  
       val = "foo"; // HERE IS WHERE I NEED TO FILL IN  
       type = "ArrayList<?>";  
   
       
     } else {  
      try {  
        Object other = field.get(o);  
        val = type;  
  
      } catch (Exception ee) {}  
  
         
    }

The solution to this problem with a String[] was casting it and creating a new String[]... but that didn't work for an ArrayList, maybe because I can't know what kind of Objects are stored in the ArrayList... but I tried casting them as ArrayList<String> and ArrayList<File> but in both cases, no matter which kind of Object the ArrayList really held, neither way worked.. How do I get the elements stored in the ArrayList?

[Tolls]

What do you mean by "neither way worked"?
(And eating exceptions like that is generally unwise).

[FALL3N1]

Oh right, sorry, how silly of me to forget... I think I can get to the end though

[Tolls]

So this is sorted then?