Find a private field with Reflection?

Question

Given this class

class Foo
{
    // Want to find _bar with reflection
    [SomeAttribute]
    private string _bar;

    public string BigBar
    {
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Answer 1

I came across this while searching for this on google so I realise I'm bumping an old post. However the GetCustomAttributes requires two params.

typeof(Foo).GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)
.Where(x => x.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(SomeAttribute), false).Length > 0);

The second parameter specifies whether or not you wish to search the inheritance hierarchy

Answer 2

I use this method personally

if (typeof(Foo).GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).Any(c => c.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(SomeAttribute), false).Any()))
{ 
    // do stuff
}

Answer 3

Yes, however you will need to set your Binding flags to search for private fields (if your looking for the member outside of the class instance).

The binding flag you will need is: System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic

Answer 4

Use BindingFlags.NonPublic and BindingFlags.Instance flags

FieldInfo[] fields = myType.GetFields(
                         BindingFlags.NonPublic | 
                         BindingFlags.Instance);