Finding field defined in parent class

[Ash Kondhalkar]

Hi,

I have one child class(let us say "c1") which inherits from parent class(let us say "p1"). p1 has one public field as "userID".
I have object "objectC1" of class c1. I am using a reflection method to get a field "userID" as below,

objectC1.getClass().getDeclaredField("userID");
It comes back with exception that
"java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: userID".

This method works fine for all fields declared in class c1.

Do we have a method to find out what are the parent classes for a particular class? So that I can fire the above method on each one of them and get the Field userID.
Or there is any other way? Kindly suggest.

Regards
Ashwin

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Use "getField" instead of "getDeclaredField"; this will return inherited public fields. If the inherited field is not public, then use getSuperclass() to get the class object for p1, and then use getDeclaredField on it.

[Peter Chase]

Seems to me you can get what you want using Class.getSuperclass().

However, you can access public fields of superclass without going to the superclass Class object. Use Class.getField(), rather than class.getDeclaredField(). Read the API to see the difference.

[Ilja Preuss]

Why are you using reflection at all???