java.lang.reflect.Constructor.getDeclaringClass() Method Example

Description

The java.lang.reflect.Constructor.getDeclaringClass() method returns the Class object representing the class that declares the constructor represented by this Constructor object.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.reflect.Constructor.getDeclaringClass() method.

public Class<T> getDeclaringClass()

Returns

an object representing the declaring class of the underlying member.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Constructor.getDeclaringClass() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;

public class ConstructorDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Constructor[] constructors = SampleClass.class.getConstructors();
      Class declaringClass = constructors[0].getDeclaringClass();
      System.out.println(declaringClass.getName());
   }
}

class SampleClass {
   private String sampleField;

   public SampleClass(){
   }

   public SampleClass(String sampleField){
      this.sampleField = sampleField;
   }

   public String getSampleField() {
      return sampleField;
   }

   public void setSampleField(String sampleField) {
      this.sampleField = sampleField;
   }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result −

com.tutorialspoint.SampleClass