How to get the initialisation value for a Java Class reference

I have a Class<?> reference for an arbitrary type. How to get that type's initialisation value? Is there some library method for this or do I have to roll my own, such as:

Class<?> klass = ...
Object init = 
    (klass == boolean.class)
  ? false
  : (klass == byte.class)
  ? (byte) 0
  ...
  : (Object) null;

The use case is I have an arbitrary java.lang.reflect.Method reference, which I want to call using arbitrary parameters (for some testing), which may not be null in case the parameter is a primitive type, so I need to specify some value of that type.