Java Core Reflection

The interface java.lang.reflect.Member

    package java.lang.reflect;

    public interface Member

The Member interface reflects identifying information about a class or interface member or constructor.

Fields

PUBLIC

    public final static int PUBLIC

Identifies the public members of a class or interface.

This is used by class SecurityManager when determining security policy.

DECLARED

    public final static int DECLARED

Identifies the declared members of a class or interface.

This is used by class SecurityManager when determining security policy.

Methods

getDeclaringClass

    public abstract Class getDeclaringClass()

Returns the Class object representing the class or interface that declares this member or constructor.

getName

    public abstract String getName()

Returns the name of this member or constructor, as a String. The member or constructor name does not include the name of its declaring class or interface.

getModifiers

    public abstract int getModifiers()

Returns the Java language modifiers for this member or constructor, encoded in an integer. The Modifier class should be used to decode the modifiers.

The modifier encodings are defined in The Java Virtual Machine Specification, Tables 4.1, 4.3, and 4.4.

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