java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaringClass() Method Example



Description

The java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaringClass() method returns the Class object representing the class that declares the method represented by this Method object.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaringClass() method.

public Class<T> getDeclaringClass()

Returns

an object representing the declaring class of the underlying member.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Method.getDeclaringClass() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class MethodDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Method[] methods = SampleClass.class.getMethods();
      Class declaringClass = methods[0].getDeclaringClass();
      System.out.println(declaringClass.getName());
   }
}

class SampleClass {
   private String sampleField;

   public String getSampleField() {
      return sampleField;
   }

   public void setSampleField(String sampleField) {
      this.sampleField = sampleField;
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

com.tutorialspoint.SampleClass
java_reflect_method.htm
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