Java method to assign object field values with Reflection

Question

I was wondering whether it would be possible to have something like the following in Java:

public class MyClass {
    private String name;
    private Intege         


        

Answer 1

Though I'm at a loss as to why you would want to do it like that (since you already have getters and setters), try this:

Field aField = getClass().getDeclaredField(aFieldName);
aField.set(this, aValue);

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