What is the Scala equivalent of Java's ClassName.class?

Question

How do I get an instance of Class in Scala? In Java, I can do this:

Class<String> stringClass = String.class;

What would be the equivalent in Scala?

Answer 1

There is a method classOf at the AnyRef level:

val stringClass = classOf[String]

You can use the getClass method to get the class object of an instance at runtime in the same manner as Java