Java™ Phrasebook

Discovering Class Modifiers

Class c = someObject.getClass(); int mods = c.getModifiers(); if (Modifier.isPublic(mods)) System.out.println("public"); if (Modifier.isAbstract(mods)) System.out.println("abstract"); if (Modifier.isFinal(mods)) System.out.println("final");

In a class definition, keywords called modifiers can precede the class keyword. The modifiers available are: public, abstract, and final. To discover which modifiers have been applied to a given class, you first get a Class object representing that class using the getClass() method. Next, you would call the getModifiers() method on the class object to return a bitmapped int value representing the modifiers. You can then use static methods of the java.lang.reflect.Modifier class ...