Get parent class for a method in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get parent class for a method.

Example


/*  w w w  .  j a  v  a  2 s.c  o  m*/
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class Main {
  public static void main(final String[] args) {
    Method[] methods = String.class.getMethods();
    for (int idx = 0; idx < methods.length; idx++) {
      System.out.println(methods[idx] + " declared by " 
         + methods[idx].getDeclaringClass());
    }
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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