java generics: getting class of a class with generic parameters

Question

I am curious how to make this work

 Class<Map<String,String>> food = Map.class;

That obviously doesn't work. I would want something like this

 Class<Map<String,String>> food = Map<String,String>.class;

but this seems like not a valid java sytax.

How can make this work?

EDIT: The reason I want this is because I have a method like this

   protected <ConfigType> ConfigValue<ConfigType> getSectionConfig(String name, Class<ConfigType> configType) {
        return config.getConfig(name);
    }

I would like to call this as so

ConfigValue<Map<String,Object>> config = getSectionConfig("blah", Map<String,Object>.class>);
Map<String,Value> val = config.value();

Answer 1

Do a brute cast

    Class<Map<String,String>> clazz = 
             (Class<Map<String,String>>)(Class)Map.class;

this is not theoretically correct, but it is not our fault. We need such hacks some times.