Using java.lang.reflect.getMethod with polymorphic methods

Question

Consider the following snippet:

public class ReflectionTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ReflectionTest test = new ReflectionTest         


        

Answer 1

The easy way to do this is via java.beans.Statement or java.beans.Expression. Does all these hard yards for you.

getMethod() is obviously unaware that a String could be fed to a method that expects an Object

'Unaware' is a strange way to put it. getMethod() adheres to its specification. You have to supply the formal parameters, not the types of the actual arguments.