My Java Tips

If you think that you cannot access private data members of a class from some other class, then think again. With Reflection, this is possible.

Using reflection, we can see / view / access a private member, private variable, private method. Some people will not like this with argument that this actually means messing up the laws of encapsulation. I use it for unit testing private methods.

Example follows:

Java Code:

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

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