How to read the value of a private field from a different class in Java?

Question

I have a poorly designed class in a 3rd-party JAR and I need to access one of its private fields. For example, why should I need to choose priv

Answer 1

Using the Reflection in Java you can access all the private/public fields and methods of one class to another .But as per the Oracle documentation in the section drawbacks they recommended that :

"Since reflection allows code to perform operations that would be illegal in non-reflective code, such as accessing private fields and methods, the use of reflection can result in unexpected side-effects, which may render code dysfunctional and may destroy portability. Reflective code breaks abstractions and therefore may change behavior with upgrades of the platform"

here is following code snapts to demonstrate basic concepts of Reflection

Reflection1.java

public class Reflection1{

    private int i = 10;

    public void methoda()
    {

        System.out.println("method1");
    }
    public void methodb()
    {

        System.out.println("method2");
    }
    public void methodc()
    {

        System.out.println("method3");
    }

}

Reflection2.java

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;


public class Reflection2{

    public static void main(String ar[]) throws IllegalAccessException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException
    {
        Method[] mthd = Reflection1.class.getMethods(); // for axis the methods 

        Field[] fld = Reflection1.class.getDeclaredFields();  // for axis the fields  

        // Loop for get all the methods in class
        for(Method mthd1:mthd)
        {

            System.out.println("method :"+mthd1.getName());
            System.out.println("parametes :"+mthd1.getReturnType());
        }

        // Loop for get all the Field in class
        for(Field fld1:fld)
        {
            fld1.setAccessible(true);
            System.out.println("field :"+fld1.getName());
            System.out.println("type :"+fld1.getType());
            System.out.println("value :"+fld1.getInt(new Reflaction1()));
        }
    }

}

Hope it will help.