reference methods or fields by "name"

[danjourno]

Is there any way of referencing a method or field dynamically by a name
contained in a string?

thanks
D

[AnonymousOne]

You can use the java.land.reflect API to do this.

example:
Class clazz = Class.forName("xyz");
Object obj = clazz.newInstance();
Method meth = clazz.getMethod("toString", null);
Object ret = meth.invoke(obj, null);

danjourno wrote:

Is there any way of referencing a method or field dynamically by a name
contained in a string?

thanks
D

[Tony Burrows]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:01:11 +1000, danjourno wrote:

Is there any way of referencing a method or field dynamically by a name
contained in a string?

thanks
D

Method m = obj.getClass().getMethod(methodname, Object[] parameters)
returns the method you want to call on obj. To invoke it:
m.invoke(obj, Object[] parameters)

You can see the Method class in java.lang.reflect

Tony