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java.lang.reflect.Method.toGenericString() Method Example
Description
The java.lang.reflect.Method.toGenericString() method returns a string describing this Method, including type parameters. The string is formatted as the method access modifiers, if any, followed by an angle-bracketed comma-separated list of the method's type parameters, if any, followed by the method's generic return type, followed by a space, followed by the class declaring the method, followed by a period, followed by the method name, followed by a parenthesized, comma-separated list of the method's generic formal parameter types.
Declaration
Following is the declaration for java.lang.reflect.Method.toGenericString() method.
public String toGenericString()
Returns
a string describing this Method, include type parameters.
Example
The following example shows the usage of java.lang.reflect.Method.toGenericString() 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].toGenericString()); } } 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 −
public void com.tutorialspoint.SampleClass.setSampleField(java.lang.String)