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

Description

The java.lang.reflect.Field.hashCode() method returns a hashcode for this Field. This is computed as the exclusive-or of the hashcodes for the underlying field's declaring class name and its name.

Declaration

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

public int hashCode()

Returns

a hash code value for this object.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Field.hashCode() 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.hashCode());
   }
}

class SampleClass {
   public static long sampleField = 5;
}

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

1616225208