Detect data type of value in Windows Registry Key with Java

Question

Is it possible to detect the type of a value stored in a Windows registry key using java?

I tried instanceof but that falls short.

I need to be able to detect if a key value is of any of these types: Binary, DWord, SZ, None, Link, QWord, Multi SZ, Expand SZ, Resource List, Full Resource Descriptor, Resource Requirements List

Thanks

Answer 1

Process processIn = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("reg query " + '"'+ regKey + "\" /v " + regSubKey);
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(processIn.getInputStream());
reader.start();
reader.join();
String read = reader.getResult();

String[] parsed = reader.getResult().split("\\s+");
if (parsed.length > 1) {
    read = parsed[parsed.length-2];
    System.out.println("type = " + read)
}

Define regKey and regSubKey and this snippet works. There may be a way to do this cleaner but it works for what I need.