java.lang.reflect.Method.isSynthetic() Method Example

Description

The java.lang.reflect.Method.isSynthetic() method returns true if this method is a synthetic method; returns false otherwise.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.reflect.Method.isSynthetic() method.

public boolean isSynthetic()

Returns

true if and only if this method is a synthetic method as defined by The Java Language Specification.

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Method.isSynthetic() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

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

      Method[] methods = SampleClass.class.getMethods();
      System.out.println(methods[1].isSynthetic());
   }
}

class SampleClass {
   private String 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 −

false