Package java.lang.reflect

Runtime inspection and manipulation of object classes, methods, arguments and fields.

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Interface Summary
AnnotatedElement	Represents an element that can be annotated.
GenericArrayType	Represents the type of an array's components, which may be either a parameterized type or a type variable.
GenericDeclaration	Represents an entity that declares one or more type parameters.
InvocationHandler	This interface defines an invocation handler.
Member	Member is an interface that represents any member of a class (field or method) or a constructor.
ParameterizedType	Represents a type which is parameterized over one or more other types.
Type	Represents any `Type` within the Java programming language.
TypeVariable<T>	This is a common interface for all type variables provided by the Java language.
WildcardType	Represents a wildcard type expression, where the type variable is unnamed.

Class Summary
AccessibleObject	This class is the superclass of various reflection classes, and allows sufficiently trusted code to bypass normal restrictions to do necessary things like invoke private methods outside of the class during Serialization.
Array	Array holds static helper functions that allow you to create and manipulate arrays by reflection.
Modifier	Modifier is a helper class with static methods to determine whether an int returned from getModifiers() represents static, public, protected, native, final, etc... and provides an additional method to print out all of the modifiers in an int in order.
Proxy	This class allows you to dynamically create an instance of any (or even multiple) interfaces by reflection, and decide at runtime how that instance will behave by giving it an appropriate {@link InvocationHandler}.
ReflectPermission	This class implements permissions for reflection.

Exception Summary
InvocationTargetException	InvocationTargetException is sort of a way to "wrap" whatever exception comes up when a method or constructor is called via Reflection.
MalformedParameterizedTypeException	This exception class is thrown when one of the reflection methods encountered an invalid parameterized type within the metadata of a class.
UndeclaredThrowableException	This exception class is thrown by a {@link Proxy} instance if the {@link InvocationHandler#invoke(Object, Method, Object[]) invoke} method of that instance's InvocationHandler attempts to throw an exception that not declared by the throws clauses of all of the interface methods that the proxy instance is implementing.

Error Summary
GenericSignatureFormatError	Thrown on encountering a syntactically malformed signature in a reflective method.

Package java.lang.reflect Description:

Runtime inspection and manipulation of object classes, methods, arguments and fields.