java.lang.reflect.Field.getType() Method Example

Description

The java.lang.reflect.Field.getType() method returns a Class object that identifies the declared type for the field represented by this Field object.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.reflect.Field.getType() method.

public Class<?> getType()

Returns

a Class object identifying the declared type of the field represented by this object.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Field.getType() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class FieldDemo {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchFieldException, 
      SecurityException, IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException {
          
      Field field = SampleClass.class.getField("sampleField");
      System.out.println(field.getType());
   }
}

class SampleClass {
   public static long sampleField = 5;
}

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

long