See if field exists in class

Question

I have a class with various variables

public class myClass{

    public int id;
    public String category;
    public String description;
    public String star         


        

Answer 1

What you are looking for is called "Reflection". It provides the ability at run-time to determine what fields and methods are contained within a class.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/reflection-in-action.html