Find out the package for primitive type or array in Java

Description

The following code shows how to find out the package for primitive type or array.

getPackage() returns null for a primitive type or array

Example


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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    Package pkg = int.class.getPackage(); // null
    pkg = int[].class.getPackage(); // null
    System.out.println(pkg);
            
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.





















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