Java: Dynamic List Type to cast Json array

Well, I have this: A number of webservices, each webservice returns an array of one entity. Good!

In my Android app, I call the webservices and get the Json String with the array of elements.

To make it some dynamically I made an array with the cast classes names, example:

<item>com.company.package.Person</item>
<item>com.company.package.Animal</item>
<item>com.company.package.Thing</item>
// etc

The idea was:

1. Load the array with the name of the class to cast the JSON

   String[] entities = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.classNames);
   
   

2. Get a Class type with Class.forName(...)

   Class<?> object = Class.forName(entities[y]); 
   
   

3. Always the webservices returns an array, then I want to convert the Json to Java List like this

   //see the **object**, this was my idea but doesn't work
   Type type = new TypeToken<List<**object**>() {}.getType();
   List<**object**> array = gson.fromJson(jsonArrayString, type);
   
   

Any way to do this?