I'd like to access the classname of the underlying class which is an instance of java.lang.reflect.Proxy
.
Is this possible?
I'd like to access the classname of the underlying class which is an instance of java.lang.reflect.Proxy
.
Is this possible?
You can get the InvocationHandler
with which the proxy was created, by calling Proxy.getInvocationHandler(proxy)
Note that in the case of java.lang.reflect.Proxy
there is no underlying class per se. The proxy is defined by:
And the wrapped class is usually passed to the concrete invocation handler.
I found a good solution on this site (now archived):
@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})
protected <T> T getTargetObject(Object proxy, Class<T> targetClass) throws Exception {
if (AopUtils.isJdkDynamicProxy(proxy)) {
return (T) ((Advised)proxy).getTargetSource().getTarget();
} else {
return (T) proxy; // expected to be cglib proxy then, which is simply a specialized class
}
}
Usage
@Override
protected void onSetUp() throws Exception {
getTargetObject(fooBean, FooBeanImpl.class).setBarRepository(new MyStubBarRepository());
}
Well a Proxy instance won't be an instance of java.lang.reflect.Proxy
per se. Rather, it will be an instance of a subclass of java.lang.reflect.Proxy
.
Anyway, the way to get the actual proxy classes name is:
Proxy proxy = ...
System.err.println("Proxy class name is " + proxy.getClass().getCanonicalName());
However, you cannot get the name of the class that the Proxy is a proxy for, because:
However, from looking at the source code of the ProxyGenerator
class, it seems that the interfaces are recorded in the generated proxy class as the interfaces of the class. So you should be able to get them at runtime via the proxy classes Class
object; e.g.
Class<?>[] classes = proxy.getClass().getInterfaces();
(Note: I've not tried this ...)
Here was the solution we used with my team (we need the name of the class behind the proxy) :
if (getTargetName(yourBean) ... ) {
}
With this little helper :
private String getTargetName(final Object target) {
if (target == null) {
return "";
}
if (targetClassIsProxied(target)) {
Advised advised = (Advised) target;
try {
return advised.getTargetSource().getTarget().getClass().getCanonicalName();
} catch (Exception e) {
return "";
}
}
return target.getClass().getCanonicalName();
}
private boolean targetClassIsProxied(final Object target) {
return target.getClass().getCanonicalName().contains("$Proxy");
}
Hope it helps!
You can use the following code for retrieve the info (ArrayUtils is from Apache commons lang) about invocation handler and the interfaces of the current proxy:
String.format("[ProxyInvocationHandler: %s, Interfaces: %s]",
Proxy.getInvocationHandler(proxy).getClass().getSimpleName(),
ArrayUtils.toString(proxy.getClass().getInterfaces()));
Example result:
[ProxyInvocationHandler: ExecuteProxyChain, Interfaces: {interface com.example.api.CustomerApi}]}
Simple and robust:
AopUtils.getTargetClass(object).getName();
Will also work for CGLIB proxies and non-proxy objects.
First of all, java.lang.reflect.Proxy
works only on interfaces. The framework creates a descendant class that implements the interface(s) but extends java.lang.reflect.Proxy rather than an application class that may be of interest to you. There is no inheritance of multiple classes in modern (2016) Java.
In my case, the debugger shows that the object of interest is in the obj
field in the invocation handler of the proxy object.
Object handler = Proxy.getInvocationHandler(somethingProxied);
Class handlerClass = handler.getClass();
Field objField = handlerClass.getDeclaredField("obj");
objField.setAccessible(true);
Object behindProxy = objField.get(handler);
You will have to catch()
two exceptions: NoSuchFieldException
and IllegalAccessException
.
I found it useful to print the list of fields of declared fields from the catch()
clause:
...
} catch (NoSuchFieldException nsfe) {
nsfe.printStackTrace();
Object handler = Proxy.getInvocationHandler(somethingProxied);
Class handlerClass = handler.getClass();
for (Field f : handlerClass.getDeclaredFields()) {
f.setAccessible(true);
String classAndValue = null;
try {
Object v = f.get(handler);
classAndValue= "" + (v == null ? "" : v.getClass()) + " : " + v;
} catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
iae.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(" field: " + f.getName() + " = " + classAndValue+ ";");
}
...
}
Note that different frameworks use different proxies and even different techniques of proxying. The solution that worked for me may be not applicable in your case. (It definitely will not work for Javassist or Hibernate proxies.)