Question

I have a question regarding java reflection.

I need some kind of way to get the name of a specific field in a java class. Something that will work like this:

class X{
   int x;

   String getNameOfProperty(Object o){
         ....
   } 
}

Then, when calling

System.out.println(getNameOfProperty(x));

I would like to get “x”;

I have managed to get the fields of a class using

X.class.getDeclaredFields();

but then i don’t have any link between the property and the Field object associated with it.

Answer 1

You can use Abstract Syntax Tree for this purpose. For Eclipse you can find details here.

You can also use following

–ANTLR

–javaparser