How to get all Declared Fields in a Class

Points To Remember

• We can use reflection to find all the fields available within a class.
• We can get all the declared fields in a class by getDeclaredFields().
• We can search for any field in a class by using getField(). It throws NoSuchFieldException if the field does not exist in the class.

Program : Get all the declared fields in a class

import java.lang.reflect.Field;


class SampleClass{

 String s1 = "Class variable";
 int a = 123;

}

class Test{

 public static void main(String args[]){
   Test obj = new Test();
   try{
 Class clazz = Class.forName("SampleClass");
        Field feilds[] = obj.getDeclaredFields(clazz);
        for(Field feild : feilds){
          System.out.println(feild);
        }
   }catch(Exception e){
 e.printStackTrace();
   }
   
 }

  public Field[] getDeclaredFields(Class clazz){
    return clazz.getDeclaredFields(); 
 }

}

java.lang.String SampleClass.s1
int SampleClass.a

Program : Get a particular field declared in a class.

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

class SuperClass{
 public String abc = "super class";

}

class SampleClass extends SuperClass{

 public String s1 = "Class variable";
 public int a = 123;

}

class Test{

 public static void main(String args[]){
   Test obj = new Test();
   try{
 Class clazz = Class.forName("SampleClass");
        Field feild = obj.getField(clazz, "abc");
        System.out.println(feild);
   }catch(Exception e){
 e.printStackTrace();
   }
   
 }

  public Field getField(Class clazz, String field) throws NoSuchFieldException{
    return clazz.getField(field); 
 }

}

public java.lang.String SuperClass.abc

We can only get the public fields declared in a class using this method. In case we try to access the private or default fields of the class, we will get a NoSuchFieldException.