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Archive for June 28th, 2011

How to access a non-acccessible field (either protected, package-protected or private) of an object in Java?

For instance, you would like to access the field threads of ThreadGroup:

ThreadGroup threadGroup = Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup();
final Field privateThreadsField;
privateThreadsField = ThreadGroup.class.getDeclaredField("threads");
privateThreadsField.setAccessible(true);
threads = (Thread[]) privateThreadsField.get(threadGroup);