Getting Value of Public Static Final Field/Property of a Class in Java via Reflection

Getting value of public static final field/property of a class in Java via reflection

First retrieve the field property of the class, then you can retrieve the value. If you know the type you can use one of the get methods with null (for static fields only, in fact with a static field the argument passed to the get method is ignored entirely). Otherwise you can use getType and write an appropriate switch as below:

Field f = R.class.getField("_1st");
Class<?> t = f.getType();
if(t == int.class){
    System.out.println(f.getInt(null));
}else if(t == double.class){
    System.out.println(f.getDouble(null));
}...

Access static final variable using reflection

Accessing static fields is done exactly the same way as normal fields, only you don't need to pass any argument to Field.get() method (you can pass a null).

Try this:

Object getFieldValue(String path) throws Exception {
    int lastDot = path.lastIndexOf(".");
    String className = path.substring(0, lastDot);
    String fieldName = path.substring(lastDot + 1);
    Class myClass = Class.forName(className);
    Field myField = myClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
    return myField.get(null);
}

How to get static final property from ClassName.class?

You should use:

    for (Class<?> item : CLASSES) {
        Field f = item.getDeclaredField("PROPERTY");
        string.equals(f.get(item));
    }

Is there a way to get all the static fields and its values from different class dynamically?

You could user reflection (Class name can be even dynamically passed):

package com.example;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args)
            throws IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException {
        printStaticFieldsAndValues("com.example.ClassWithStaticFields");
    }

    private static void printStaticFieldsAndValues(String className)
            throws IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException {
        Class clazz = Class.forName(className);
        for (Field f : clazz.getDeclaredFields()) {
            if (Modifier.isStatic(f.getModifiers())) {
                System.out.println("Name: " + f.getName());
                System.out.println("Value " + f.get(null));
            }
        }
    }
}

Class which has static fields:

package com.example;

public class ClassWithStaticFields {

    static String stringField = "String Value";

}

Output:

Name: stringField
Value String Value

Change private static final field using Java reflection

Assuming no SecurityManager is preventing you from doing this, you can use setAccessible to get around private and resetting the modifier to get rid of final, and actually modify a private static final field.

Here's an example:

import java.lang.reflect.*;

public class EverythingIsTrue {
   static void setFinalStatic(Field field, Object newValue) throws Exception {
      field.setAccessible(true);

      Field modifiersField = Field.class.getDeclaredField("modifiers");
      modifiersField.setAccessible(true);
      modifiersField.setInt(field, field.getModifiers() & ~Modifier.FINAL);

      field.set(null, newValue);
   }
   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {      
      setFinalStatic(Boolean.class.getField("FALSE"), true);

      System.out.format("Everything is %s", false); // "Everything is true"
   }
}

Assuming no SecurityException is thrown, the above code prints "Everything is true".

What's actually done here is as follows:

The primitive boolean values true and false in main are autoboxed to reference type Boolean "constants" Boolean.TRUE and Boolean.FALSE
Reflection is used to change the public static final Boolean.FALSE to refer to the Boolean referred to by Boolean.TRUE
As a result, subsequently whenever a false is autoboxed to Boolean.FALSE, it refers to the same Boolean as the one refered to by Boolean.TRUE
Everything that was "false" now is "true"

Caveats

Extreme care should be taken whenever you do something like this. It may not work because a SecurityManager may be present, but even if it doesn't, depending on usage pattern, it may or may not work.

JLS 17.5.3 Subsequent Modification of Final Fields
In some cases, such as deserialization, the system will need to change the final fields of an object after construction. final fields can be changed via reflection and other implementation dependent means. The only pattern in which this has reasonable semantics is one in which an object is constructed and then the final fields of the object are updated. The object should not be made visible to other threads, nor should the final fields be read, until all updates to the final fields of the object are complete. Freezes of a final field occur both at the end of the constructor in which the final field is set, and immediately after each modification of a final field via reflection or other special mechanism.
Even then, there are a number of complications. If a final field is initialized to a compile-time constant in the field declaration, changes to the final field may not be observed, since uses of that final field are replaced at compile time with the compile-time constant.
Another problem is that the specification allows aggressive optimization of final fields. Within a thread, it is permissible to reorder reads of a final field with those modifications of a final field that do not take place in the constructor.

Appendix: On the bitwise manipulation

Essentially,

field.getModifiers() & ~Modifier.FINAL

turns off the bit corresponding to Modifier.FINAL from field.getModifiers(). & is the bitwise-and, and ~ is the bitwise-complement.

Remember Constant Expressions

Still not being able to solve this?, have fallen onto depression like I did for it? Does your code looks like this?

public class A {
    private final String myVar = "Some Value";
}

Reading the comments on this answer, specially the one by @Pshemo, it reminded me that Constant Expressions are handled different so it will be impossible to modify it. Hence you will need to change your code to look like this:

public class A {
    private final String myVar;

    private A() {
        myVar = "Some Value";
    }
}

if you are not the owner of the class... I feel you!

For more details about why this behavior read this?

Retrieve only static fields declared in Java class

You can do it like this:

Field[] declaredFields = Test.class.getDeclaredFields();
List<Field> staticFields = new ArrayList<Field>();
for (Field field : declaredFields) {
    if (java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isStatic(field.getModifiers())) {
        staticFields.add(field);
    }
}

Get field values using reflection

Something like this...

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        try {
            Foobar foobar = new Foobar("Peter");
            System.out.println("Name: " + foobar.getName());
            Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("com.csa.mdm.Foobar");
            System.out.println("Class: " + clazz);
            Field field = clazz.getDeclaredField("name");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            String value = (String) field.get(foobar);
            System.out.println("Value: " + value);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

class Foobar {
    private final String name;

    public Foobar(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return this.name;
    }
}

Or, you can use the newInstance method of class to get an instance of your object at runtime. You'll still need to set that instance variable first though, otherwise it won't have any value.

E.g.

Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("com.something.Foobar");
Object object = clazz.newInstance();

Or, where it has two parameters in its constructor, String and int for example...

Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("com.something.Foobar");
Constructor<?> constructor = clazz.getConstructor(String.class, int.class);
Object obj = constructor.newInstance("Meaning Of Life", 42);

Or you can interrogate it for its constructors at runtime using clazz.getConstructors()

NB I deliberately omitted the casting of the object created here to the kind expected, as that would defeat the point of the reflection, as you'd already be aware of the class if you do that, which would negate the need for reflection in the first place.

Reflection generic get field value

Like answered before, you should use:

Object value = field.get(objectInstance);

Another way, which is sometimes prefered, is calling the getter dynamically. example code:

public static Object runGetter(Field field, BaseValidationObject o)
{
    // MZ: Find the correct method
    for (Method method : o.getMethods())
    {
        if ((method.getName().startsWith("get")) && (method.getName().length() == (field.getName().length() + 3)))
        {
            if (method.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(field.getName().toLowerCase()))
            {
                // MZ: Method found, run it
                try
                {
                    return method.invoke(o);
                }
                catch (IllegalAccessException e)
                {
                    Logger.fatal("Could not determine method: " + method.getName());
                }
                catch (InvocationTargetException e)
                {
                    Logger.fatal("Could not determine method: " + method.getName());
                }

            }
        }
    }

    return null;
}

Also be aware that when your class inherits from another class, you need to recursively determine the Field. for instance, to fetch all Fields of a given class;

    for (Class<?> c = someClass; c != null; c = c.getSuperclass())
    {
        Field[] fields = c.getDeclaredFields();
        for (Field classField : fields)
        {
            result.add(classField);
        }
    }

Getting Value of Public Static Final Field/Property of a Class in Java via Reflection