I'm writing a class, which at some point has to have all its Field
s assigned from another item of this class.
I did it through reflection:
for (Field f:pg.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) { f.set(this, f.get(pg)); }
The problem is, that this class contains a Field
, which is final
. I could skip it by name, but to me that seems not elegant at all.
What's the best way to check if a Field
is final
in java using reflection?
It's very bad because it ties your UI to your method names, which should be completely unrelated. Making an seemingly innocent change later on can have unexpected disastrous consequences. Using reflection is not a bad practice.
Reflection is a feature in the Java programming language. It allows an executing Java program to examine or "introspect" upon itself, and manipulate internal properties of the program. For example, it's possible for a Java class to obtain the names of all its members and display them.
Adding setAccessible(true) call makes these reflection calls faster, but even then it takes 5.5 nanoseconds per call. Reflection is 104% slower than direct access (so about twice as slow). It also takes longer to warm up.
Java Reflection is a process of examining or modifying the run time behavior of a class at run time. The java. lang. Class class provides many methods that can be used to get metadata, examine and change the run time behavior of a class.
The best and only one way is: Modifier.isFinal(f.getModifiers())
Reference:
Field.getModifiers
Modifier.isFinal
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