How to get string value from a Java field via reflection?

Question

I have a method:

public void extractStringFromField(Class classToInspect) {
    Field[] allFields = classToInspect.getDeclaredFields();

    for(Fie         


        

Answer 1

It looks like you need a reference to an instance of the class. You would want to call get and pass in the reference, casting the return to a String.

You can use get as follows:

String strValue = (String) field.get (objectReference);