java.lang.reflect

Represents an annotated element of the program currently running in this VM.

GenericArrayType represents an array type whose component type is either a parameterized type or a type variable.

A common interface for all entities that declare type variables.

InvocationHandler is the interface implemented by the invocation handler of a proxy instance.

Member is an interface that reflects identifying information about a single member (a field or a method) or a constructor.

ParameterizedType represents a parameterized type such as Collection<String>.

Type is the common superinterface for all types in the Java programming language.

TypeVariable is the common superinterface for type variables of kinds.

WildcardType represents a wildcard type expression, such as ?, ? extends Number, or ? super Integer.

The AccessibleObject class is the base class for Field, Method and Constructor objects.

The Array class provides static methods to dynamically create and access Java arrays.

Constructor provides information about, and access to, a single constructor for a class.

A shared superclass for the common functionality of Method and Constructor.

A Field provides information about, and dynamic access to, a single field of a class or an interface.

A Method provides information about, and access to, a single method on a class or interface.

The Modifier class provides static methods and constants to decode class and member access modifiers.

Information about method parameters.

Proxy provides static methods for creating dynamic proxy classes and instances, and it is also the superclass of all dynamic proxy classes created by those methods.

A RecordComponent provides information about, and dynamic access to, a component of a record class.

Legacy security code; do not use.

Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the generic signature information for a type, method or constructor.

InvocationTargetException is a checked exception that wraps an exception thrown by an invoked method or constructor.

Thrown when a semantically malformed parameterized type is encountered by a reflective method that needs to instantiate it.

Thrown when the attempts to read method parameters from a class file and determines that one or more parameters are malformed.

Thrown by a method invocation on a proxy instance if its invocation handler's invoke method throws a checked exception (a Throwable that is not assignable to RuntimeException or Error) that is not assignable to any of the exception types declared in the throws clause of the method that was invoked on the proxy instance and dispatched to the invocation handler.