Check if class is an inner class

[Sebastian Janisch]

Hey,

I'm trying to find out some of the metadata of a class.

The Modifier class offers pretty much most of what I need, however, I am trying to find out of a class is a non-static inner class and the Modifier API does not seem to provide that kind of information.

I could check if the class name contains '$' and then use the Modifier#isStatic() method but that seems cumbersome to me. Is there a smoother way to do that ?

Thanks

[Sebastian Janisch]

I found the solution.

Class has a method #getEnclosingClass(). This method will return null if the class in question is a top level class.

So, getEnclosingClass() != null && Modifiers.isStatic(class.getModifiers()) does the trick.