java.lang.reflect
Class Method
- Member
The Method class represents a member method of a class. It also allows
dynamic invocation, via reflection. This works for both static and
instance methods. Invocation on Method objects knows how to do
widening conversions, but throws
IllegalArgumentException
if
a narrowing conversion would be necessary. You can query for information
on this Method regardless of location, but invocation access may be limited
by Java language access controls. If you can't do it in the compiler, you
can't normally do it here either.
Note: This class returns and accepts types as Classes, even
primitive types; there are Class types defined that represent each
different primitive type. They are
java.lang.Boolean.TYPE,
java.lang.Byte.TYPE,
, also available as
boolean.class,
byte.class
, etc. These are not to be confused with the
classes
java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Byte
, etc., which are
real classes.
Also note that this is not a serializable class. It is entirely feasible
to make it serializable using the Externalizable interface, but this is
on Sun, not me.
clone , equals , finalize , getClass , hashCode , notify , notifyAll , toString , wait , wait , wait |
equals
public boolean equals(Object obj)
Compare two objects to see if they are semantically equivalent.
Two Methods are semantically equivalent if they have the same declaring
class, name, and parameter list. This ignores different exception
clauses or return types.
- equals in interface Object
true
if they are equal; false
if not
getExceptionTypes
public Class[] getExceptionTypes()
Get the exception types this method says it throws, in no particular
order. If the method has no throws clause, returns a 0-length array
(not null).
- a list of the types in the method's throws clause
getModifiers
public int getModifiers()
Gets the modifiers this method uses. Use the Modifier
class to interpret the values. A method can only have a subset of the
following modifiers: public, private, protected, abstract, static,
final, synchronized, native, and strictfp.
- getModifiers in interface Member
- an integer representing the modifiers to this Member
getParameterTypes
public Class[] getParameterTypes()
Get the parameter list for this method, in declaration order. If the
method takes no parameters, returns a 0-length array (not null).
- a list of the types of the method's parameters
hashCode
public int hashCode()
Get the hash code for the Method.
- hashCode in interface Object
- the hash code for the object
invoke
public Object invoke(Object obj,
Object[] args)
throws IllegalAccessException,
IllegalArgumentException,
InvocationTargetException
Invoke the method. Arguments are automatically unwrapped and widened,
and the result is automatically wrapped, if needed.
If the method is static,
o
will be ignored. Otherwise,
the method uses dynamic lookup as described in JLS 15.12.4.4. You cannot
mimic the behavior of nonvirtual lookup (as in super.foo()). This means
you will get a
NullPointerException
if
o
is
null, and an
IllegalArgumentException
if it is incompatible
with the declaring class of the method. If the method takes 0 arguments,
you may use null or a 0-length array for
args
.
Next, if this Method enforces access control, your runtime context is
evaluated, and you may have an
IllegalAccessException
if
you could not acces this method in similar compiled code. If the method
is static, and its class is uninitialized, you trigger class
initialization, which may end in a
ExceptionInInitializerError
.
Finally, the method is invoked. If it completes normally, the return value
will be null for a void method, a wrapped object for a primitive return
method, or the actual return of an Object method. If it completes
abruptly, the exception is wrapped in an
InvocationTargetException
.
args
- the arguments to the method
- the return value of the method, wrapped in the appropriate
wrapper if it is primitive
toString
public String toString()
Get a String representation of the Method. A Method's String
representation is "<modifiers> <returntype>
<methodname>(<paramtypes>) throws <exceptions>", where
everything after ')' is omitted if there are no exceptions.
Example:
public static int run(java.lang.Runnable,int)
- toString in interface Object
- the String representation of the Method
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