How to find out the declared type of an identifier in Java?

Question

I have a simple class Apple extends from another simple class Fruit.

At run-time, I could use

Fruit fruit = new Apple();

fruit.getClass();
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Answer 1

No, there isn't: at least not using reflection. Reflection can give you information about an object at runtime, as well as fields, methods and classes, but not local variables. If fruit was a field, you could do something like the following:

FruitBasket.class.getDeclaredField("fruit").getType();