Question

I want to get all methods from a class but exclude the inherited methods such as : wait, toString, hash etc.

Is there a built in way to do it or do I need to define a blacklist and check the method name against it?

Answer 1

You can ignore methods like

for(Method method: clazz.getMethods()) {
    if(method.getDeclaringClass() == Object.class) continue;

}

Note: this will include methods overridden in a sub-class.

If you don’t want any inherited methods you can use

for(Method method: clazz.getDeclaredMethods()) {