Say I have an abstract class as follows:
public abstract class Foo {
String myField = "DefaultValue";
}
Note that the field is not static. How can I obtain the default value of the
field, namely "DefaultValue", without having a concrete class that I can
instantiate?
Using plain vanilla reflection, there doesn't appear to be a way, since the
only way to get the value of a non-static field is to have an instance of
the class. So I was hoping there might be a way to do this with BCEL, but I
couldn't find anything there either.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Martin Cooper
