Calling constructors via reflection without casting using generics

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I have a bunch of classes that all have the same constructor signature. I have a method that returns an object of that type based on some arguments (which are not the same arguments in the constructor), but I can't seem to figure out how to make a generic method that works for all classes.

Separated as different methods, I may have something like this:

public ImplementationClassA getClassA(long id)
{
    SomeGenericThing thing = getGenericThing(id);
    return new ImplementationClassA(thing);
}

public ImplementationClassB getClassB(long id)
{
    SomeGenericThing thing = getGenericThing(id);
    return new ImplementationClassB(thing);
}

As you can see, they're strikingly similar, just the implementation class is different. How do I make a generic method to handle all implementation classes, assuming they have the same constructor?

I took a stab at it, but it's not working because T isn't recognized... but it feels like something similar to what I want:

public T getImplementationClass(Class<T> implementationClass, long id)
{
    SomeGenericThing thing = getGenericThing(id);
    return implementationClass.getConstructor(SomeGenericThing.class)
                              .newInstance(thing);
}

The caller could now simply do getImplementationClass(ImplementationClassA.class, someID).

Is this even possible with reflection and generic types?

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