I would like to determine the class value of a generic type.  Is it
possible?

Right now, I'm passing the type as a parameter to the class
constructor:

public class Example<T extends Enum<T>> {
       
   private final Class<T> clazz;

   protected Example(Class<T> clazz) {
    this.clazz = clazz;
   }
       
   public T parse(String text) {
       // Can I derive the value of clazz from T?
    T value = T.valueOf(clazz, text);
    return value;
   }
}

But I'm wondering if I can derive the class value of T instead of
using a constructor parameter or is type erasure as play here?

/Martin