Does reflection breaks the idea of private methods, because private methods can be access outside of the class?

Question

Does reflection break the idea of private methods? Because private methods can be accessed from outside of the class? (Maybe I don\'t understand the meaning of reflection or

Answer 1

I think this is a matter of opinion, but if you are using reflection to get around the encapsulation put in place by a developer on a class, then you are defeating the purpose.

So, to answer your question, it breaks the idea of encapsulation (or information hiding), which simply states that private properties/methods are private so they cant be mucked with outside the class.