IllegalAccessException on using reflection

Question

I was trying to learn reflection and I came across this IllegalAccessException. Please see the following code:

public class ReflectionTest
{
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Answer 1

The troublesome piece of code is this:

itr.getClass().getMethod

You probably wanted hasNext on the Iterator class. What you have written is the HashMap.KeyIterator class, which according the Java language access specifiers (or at least the rough interpretation of JDK 1.0 used by reflection) is not available to your code.

Use instead:

Iterator.class.getMethod

(And if it wasn't for learning purposes, stay away from reflection.)