Class Methods throught Reflect

Question

Is it necessary to execute the Class.getMethods() method to retrieve the methods with a certain name?
For example :
public class XPTO{
public void test(int i){}
public void test(String str){}
public void test(long l){}
}I just need the test methods, but the getMethods() returns besides the looked for methods, also the inhereted methods and other defined methods in the actual Class.
In this case the class just has a couple of methods, now lets imagine a javax.swing.JComponent subclass... with more implemented methods in it.
Well you may say it fast to process a search, or filter for the methods, but lets imagine that it's necessary to process this type of action for thousands of Class's (a little extremist?!? Maybe).
Daniel Campelo

Answer 1

then there is no other way than going through all
methods, unless those methods are part of a certain
(smaller) interface or are being declared in a known
class, in which case you could use
getDeclaredMethods() of that certain class.In the given example i was searching for methods that were defined in the processed class but there can be methods defined in the super class...And the intention is to retreave all methods that correspond to a given name that a certain class has defined (or it's super class's).
however, I don't think that going through all method
names will be a bottleneck for your application...It may be true for a couple of class's with not many methods defined but like i said : '(...)lets imagine that it's necessary to process this type of action for thousands of Class's(...)'.
Many milliseconds make seconds that in turn make minutes and so on...
I'll teste it and will report back...
Thanx for the help so far :)
Daniel Campelo