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Access Private Variables outside the class?

 
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I heard that one can use private variables outside the class...Anyone knows how to do it?

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You have been told incorrectly, I believe.
You can provide getXXX() methods, however.
 
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Never...
 
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The short answer is "no". The full answer is a little more complicated...in certain circumstances you can do it using reflection.

See http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-reflection/private-fields-and-methods.html for an example.
 
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Without reflection it's not possible from outside the outer most class. Private members of a nested class are visible in its enclosing class. For example:
 
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Why? Why are you in such a predicament ? If you need to access a private variable outside the class, you have to think about your class design.

Having that said, you can use Spring to do this.
 
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When you need to provide junit test cases for your classes this is mostly used.
There will be many classes which hold business logic in private methods, and private constructors.
Testing those business functionality can not be done with out accessing them in your Test class.

Yes. We can use reflection API for accessing private members of the class in our test classes.
 
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I faced the same problem some time in the past. here's what helped me: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-reflection/private-fields-and-methods.html
 
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