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

Description

The java.lang.reflect.Constructor.toGenericString() method returns a string describing this Constructor, including type parameters. The string is formatted as the constructor access modifiers, if any, followed by an angle-bracketed comma separated list of the constructor's type parameters, if any, followed by the fully-qualified name of the declaring class, followed by a parenthesized, comma-separated list of the constructor's generic formal parameter types.

Declaration

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

public String toGenericString()

Returns

a string describing this Constructor, include type parameters.

Example

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

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;

public class ConstructorDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Constructor[] constructors = SampleClass.class.getConstructors();
      System.out.println(constructors[1].toGenericString());
   }
}

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 −

public com.tutorialspoint.SampleClass(java.lang.String)