I am trying to obtain a field's value via reflection. The problem is I don't know the field's type and have to decide it while getting the value.
This code results with this exception:
Can not set java.lang.String field com....fieldName to java.lang.String
Field field = object.getClass().getDeclaredField(fieldName);
field.setAccessible(true);
Class<?> targetType = field.getType();
Object objectValue = targetType.newInstance();
Object value = field.get(objectValue);
I tried to cast, but I get compilation errors:
field.get((targetType)objectValue)
or
targetType objectValue = targetType.newInstance();
How can I do this?
Like answered before, you should use:
Object value = field.get(objectInstance);
Another way, which is sometimes prefered, is calling the getter dynamically. example code:
public static Object runGetter(Field field, BaseValidationObject o)
{
// MZ: Find the correct method
for (Method method : o.getMethods())
{
if ((method.getName().startsWith("get")) && (method.getName().length() == (field.getName().length() + 3)))
{
if (method.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(field.getName().toLowerCase()))
{
// MZ: Method found, run it
try
{
return method.invoke(o);
}
catch (IllegalAccessException e)
{
Logger.fatal("Could not determine method: " + method.getName());
}
catch (InvocationTargetException e)
{
Logger.fatal("Could not determine method: " + method.getName());
}
}
}
}
return null;
}
Also be aware that when your class inherits from another class, you need to recursively determine the Field. for instance, to fetch all Fields of a given class;
for (Class<?> c = someClass; c != null; c = c.getSuperclass())
{
Field[] fields = c.getDeclaredFields();
for (Field classField : fields)
{
result.add(classField);
}
}