Java Coding Problems

160. Getting static methods

Let's assume that we have the following Melon class:

public class Melon {  ...  public void eat() {}  public void weighsIn() {}  public static void cultivate(Seed seeds) {    System.out.println("The cultivate() method was invoked ...");  }  public static void peel(Slice slice) {    System.out.println("The peel() method was invoked ...");  }  // getters, setters, toString() omitted for brevity}

This class has two static methods—cultivate() and peel(). Let's fetch these two methods in List<Method>.

The solution to this problem has two main steps:

1. Fetch all the available methods of the given class
2. Filter those that contain the static modifier via the Modifier.isStatic() method

In code, it looks like this:

List<Method> staticMethods ...