ObjectStreamField getType() in Java

getType(): This method is available in the java.io.ObjectStreamField class of Java.

Syntax:

Class<?> java.io.ObjectStreamField.getType()

This method gets the type of field. If the type is non-primitive and this ObjectStreamField was obtained from a deserialized ObjectStreamClass instance, then Object.class is returned. Otherwise, the Class object for the type of field is returned.

Parameters: NA

Returns: a Class object representing the type of the serializable field.

Exceptions: NA

Approach

Java

import java.io.ObjectStreamField;

public class ObjectStreamFieldgetType {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ObjectStreamField objectStreamField = 
                 new ObjectStreamField("name", String.class);

        System.out.println(objectStreamField.getType());
    }
}

Output:

class java.lang.String

Some more methods of ObjectStreamField

compareTo(Object): This method compares this field with another ObjectStreamField.

getName(): This method gets the name of this field.

getOffset(): This method returns the offset of the field within instance data.

getTypeCode(): This method returns character encoding of the field type.

getTypeString(): This method returns the JVM type signature.

isPrimitive(): This method returns true if this field has a primitive type.

isUnshared(): This method returns a boolean value indicating whether or not the serializable field represented by this ObjectStreamField instance is unshared.

ObjectStreamField(String, Class): This method creates a Serializable field with the specified type.

ObjectStreamField(String, Class, boolean): This method creates an ObjectStreamField representing a serializable field with the given name and type.

toString(): This method returns a string that describes this field.