Accessing Private Methods
To access a private method call the Class.getDeclaredMethod(String name, Class[] parameterTypes) or Class.getDeclaredMethods() method. The methods Class.getMethod(String name, Class[] parameterTypes) and Class.getMethods() methods only return public methods, so they won't work. Here is a simple example of a class with a private method, and below that the code to access that method via Java Reflection
public class PrivateObject {
private String privateString = null;
public PrivateObject(String privateString) {
this.privateString = privateString;
}
private String getPrivateString(){
return this.privateString;
}
}
PrivateObject privateObject = new PrivateObject("The Private Value");
Method privateStringMethod = PrivateObject.class.getDeclaredMethod("getPrivateString", null);
privateStringMethod.setAccessible(true);
String returnValue = (String)
privateStringMethod.invoke(privateObject, null);
System.out.println("returnValue = " + returnValue);
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