Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * * Funf: Open Sensing Framework * Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Nadav Aharony, Wei Pan, Alex Pentland. * Acknowledgments: Alan Gardner * Contact: nadav@media.mit.edu * * This file is part of Funf. * * Funf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * Funf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with Funf. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * */ import java.lang.reflect.Field; public class Main { /** * Returns the field with the given name on the type lowest in the class hierarchy. * * @param name The name of the field to get * @param type The class on which to search for the field. * @return The field with this name lowest in the hierarchy, otherwise null if the field does not exist in the class hierarchy. */ public static Field getField(String name, Class<?> type) { for (Field field : type.getDeclaredFields()) { if (field.getName().equals(name)) { return field; } } if (type.getSuperclass() != null) { return getField(name, type.getSuperclass()); } return null; } }