The example below using reflection to obtain the fields of a class object. We’ll get the field names and their corresponding type. There are three ways shown below which can be used to get an object fields:

• Class.getDeclaredFields()
• Class.getFields()
• Class.getField(String)

package org.kodejava.lang.reflect;

import java.util.Date;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class GetFields {
    public Long id;
    protected String name;
    private Date birthDate;
    Double weight;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        GetFields object = new GetFields();
        Class<? extends GetFields> clazz = object.getClass();

        // Get all object fields including public, protected, package and private
        // access fields.
        Field[] fields = clazz.getDeclaredFields();
        System.out.println("Number of fields = " + fields.length);
        for (Field field : fields) {
            System.out.println("Field name = " + field.getName());
            System.out.println("Field type = " + field.getType().getName());
        }

        System.out.println("\n----------------------------------------\n");

        // Get all object accessible public fields.
        fields = clazz.getFields();
        System.out.println("Number of fields = " + fields.length);
        for (Field field : fields) {
            System.out.println("Field name = " + field.getName());
            System.out.println("Field type = " + field.getType().getName());
        }

        System.out.println("\n----------------------------------------\n");

        try {
            // Get field name id with public access modifier
            Field field = clazz.getField("id");
            System.out.println("Field name = " + field.getName());
            System.out.println("Field type = " + field.getType().getName());
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The output of the code snippet above are:

Number of fields = 4
Field name = id
Field type = java.lang.Long
Field name = name
Field type = java.lang.String
Field name = birthDate
Field type = java.util.Date
Field name = weight
Field type = java.lang.Double

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Number of fields = 1
Field name = id
Field type = java.lang.Long

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Field name = id
Field type = java.lang.Long