Calling a method by its name

Question

Possible duplicate:
How to call a Java method when specifying the method name as a string?

I have 10 methods: m1

, m2

, m3

, ...

like this:

public void m1(){
..
}

How can I call them with a string in a 'for' loop?

I want to do this:

for (int i=1;i<11;i++){
   invoke('m'+i);
}

+2

Wops Jan 24 13 at 8:16

3 answers

You can do this with reflection .

However, I will be interested in your use case. You can often refactor your application so that the use of reflection is overkill.

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flash Jan 24 At 8:20 am

Use java reflection on object this

.

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GeorgeVremescu Jan 24 13 at 8:18

Swapnil · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-24T08:19:23+0000

For this you need to use reflection

.

    Method method = getClass().getMethod(methodName);
    method.invoke(this);

So, you need to store the method names in an array and use that piece of code to call those methods one by one.