i am trying to call a private method using java reflection i developed a small method to call the others methods iterating over all methods and comparing by name and by parameters type i have invoke 4 methods with success.
i have one question.
1). is this the best way to do it?. because i understand class.getMethod only match public methods. Java have something built-in?
here is my code.
public class Compute
{
private Method getMethod(Class clazz,String methodName,Class...parametersClass)
{
outer:
Method[] methods = clazz.getDeclaredMethods();
for(Method method:methods)
{
//comparing the method types... of the requested method and the real method.....
if(method.getName().equals(methodName) && parametersClass.length== method.getParameterTypes().length)//it a possible match
{
Class[]arrayForRealParameters = method.getParameterTypes();
//comparing the method types... of the requested method and the real method.....
for(int i=0;i<arrayForRealParameters.length;i++)if(!arrayForRealParameters[i].getSimpleName().equals(parametersClass[i].getSimpleName()))continue outer;
return method;
}
}
return null;
}
private Calendar getCalendar(){return java.util.Calendar.getInstance();}
private void methodByReflex(){System.out.println("Empty Parameters.");}
private void methodByReflex(Integer a,Integer b){System.out.println(a*b);}
private void methodByReflex(String a,String b){System.out.println(a.concat(b));}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
Compute clazz = new Compute();
Class[]arrayOfEmptyClasses=new Class[]{};
Class[]arrayOfIntegerClasses=new Class[]{Integer.class,Integer.class};
Class[]arrayOfStringClasses=new Class[]{String.class,String.class};
Method calendarMethod=clazz.getMethod(clazz.getClass(),"getCalendar",arrayOfEmptyClasses);
Method emptyMethod=clazz.getMethod(clazz.getClass(),"methodByReflex",arrayOfEmptyClasses);
Method intMethod=clazz.getMethod(clazz.getClass(),"methodByReflex",arrayOfIntegerClasses);
Method stringMethod=clazz.getMethod(clazz.getClass(),"methodByReflex",arrayOfStringClasses);
System.out.println((calendarMethod==null)+" "+(emptyMethod==null)+" "+(intMethod==null)+" "+(stringMethod==null));//prints false false false false
Calendar cal = (Calendar)calendarMethod.invoke(clazz);
System.out.println(cal.getTime());//prints current time
stringMethod.invoke(clazz,"John ","Lennon");//Prints John Lennon
emptyMethod.invoke(clazz);//prints Empty Parameters.
intMethod.invoke(clazz,13,13);// prints 169
Integer a=10,b=10;
intMethod.invoke(clazz,a,b);//prints 100
}
}
any help is appreciate it. thanks a lot.