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Class ClassHelper

public class ClassHelper
extends Object
ClassHelper has various methods that ought to have been in Class.

Method Summary

static Field[]
getAllFields(Class<T> clazz)
Get all the fields, public, private and otherwise, from the class, getting them from the most recent class to find them.
static Method[]
getAllMethods(Class<T> clazz)
Get all the methods, public, private and otherwise, from the class, getting them from the most recent class to find them.
static String
getTruncatedClassName(Class<T> clazz)
Strip the package part from the class name.
static String
getTruncatedName(String name)
Strip the package part from the class name, or the class part from the method or field name.
static String
getUserName(Class<T> klass)
Return the name of the class as written by the user.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, extends Object> getClass, finalize, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

getAllFields

public static Field[] getAllFields(Class<T> clazz)
Get all the fields, public, private and otherwise, from the class, getting them from the most recent class to find them. This may not be quite the correct approach, as this includes fields that are not inherited or accessible from clazz, so beware.
Parameters:
clazz - the class to start at
Returns:
all fields declared or inherited in clazz

getAllMethods

public static Method[] getAllMethods(Class<T> clazz)
Get all the methods, public, private and otherwise, from the class, getting them from the most recent class to find them. This may not be quite the correct approach, as this includes methods that are not inherited or accessible from clazz, so beware.
Parameters:
clazz - the class to start at
Returns:
all methods declared or inherited in clazz

getTruncatedClassName

public static String getTruncatedClassName(Class<T> clazz)
Strip the package part from the class name.
Parameters:
clazz - the class to get the truncated name from
Returns:
the truncated class name

getTruncatedName

public static String getTruncatedName(String name)
Strip the package part from the class name, or the class part from the method or field name.
Parameters:
name - the name to truncate
Returns:
the truncated name

getUserName

public static String getUserName(Class<T> klass)
Return the name of the class as written by the user. This is used by the various reflection toString methods. It differs from Class.getName() in that it prints arrays with trailing "[]"s. Note that it does not treat member classes specially, so a dollar sign may still appear in the result. This is intentional.
Parameters:
klass - the class
Returns:
a pretty form of the class' name
ClassHelper.java -- Utility methods to augment java.lang.Class Copyright (C) 1998, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

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