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

Yes, it does break encapsulation. But there are many good reasons to use it in some situations.

For example:

I use MSCaptcha in some websites, but it renders a < div> around the < img > tag that messes with my HTML. Then i can use a standard < img> tag and use reflection to get the value of the captcha's image id to construct a URL.

The image id is a private Property but using reflection i can get that value.