Question

My class A has

   AClaz[] rofl;

The documentation for getDeclaredFields says “This method returns an array of length 0 if the class or interface declares no fields, or if this Class object represents a primitive type, an array class, or void. ”

I want to access the rofl array of type AClaz using reflection. Even if the AClaz is an inner class of class A.

So I would do getDeclaredClass ?

Answer 1

You’re misreading the documentation – it’s talking about calling getDeclaredFields on an array class, like this:

Class<?> arrayClass = String[].getClass();
Field[] fields = arrayClass.getDeclaredFields();

You should be able to get the field from A without any problem using

Field[] fields = A.class.getDeclaredFields();

and then iterate over the array, or

Field roflField = A.class.getDeclaredField("rofl");

The fact that the field type is an array is not a problem at all.