Obtain Superclass and implemented Interface

Obtain Superclass and implemented Interface using class Object methods

Using getSuperclass() method of Class object, we can access the superclass of the class.

package reflect;

class Super {

}

class Child extends Super {

}

public class ClassObject {

     public static void main(String[] args) {

           Class superCls = Child.class.getSuperclass();

           System.out.println(superCls);

     }

}

Output: class reflect.Super

Implemented Interfaces

A class can implement many interfaces. Therefore an array of Class is returned. Interfaces are also represented by Class objects in Java Reflection.

Class[] interfaces1 = MyClass.getInterfaces();