Finding Exposed Methods of a Class

[K Sujit]

Hi All,

I have many classes with only set and get methods. The number of set and get methods differ from class to class. Obviously it depends upon the number of instance variables that particular class has.

Now suppose I got a class C, I want to find what all methods it is exposing. How can I do that.

Thanks in advance!

[Steve Morrow]

Options include (in roughly preferential order, and not limited to) reading the API docs for the class, relying on an IDE, looking at the source, or using reflection.

Hope this helps.

[Rick Stabile]

I did something similar recently. Only I exposed a class's fields rather than its methods using the Class.getFields() method. I talk about it here: Reflection made my life easier today..

Rather than use the getFields() method, you would probably want to use the getMethods() method. Look at the javadoc for the Class class - Javadoc for Class. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.

[Mark Spritzler]

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[K Sujit]

Thanks all!

I found what I wanted at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/class/getMethods.html

Sujit