Getting an object's field name

Question

In the snippet of code shown below, 'parent' represents a UI dialog, and 'child' represents one of the components of the dialog. What I would like to know is the field name of 'child'. The variable 'fieldName' would contain the name I am seeking, if I knew how to determine the value of 'ii' that corresponds to the object 'child'.
I hope you can help.
Thanks,
Miguel
String getFieldName(Object parent,Component child) {
Class cl = parent.getClass();
Field [] fields = cl.getDeclaredFields();
String fieldName = fields[ii].getName();
// problem: how to get 'ii' that corresponds to 'child'?
return fieldName;
}

Answer 1

Is there a way to get the
corresponding array of component objects? It depends on the way the "parent" class is defined.
For example (a BAD example, but an example):
I could have the parent keep it's components in a HashMap, with a key of the component type and a value of an ArrayList that contains each component matching the component type.
This would be very annoying to deal with, and hard to find any given component (whether reflectively or with normal code).
If I can get
the value of a field (Object val =
field.get(parent);), there must be a way to get the
reference to the object that correspond to the pair
'field','parent'.
Thanks.Huh?
What do you think field[1].get(parent) returned?
It's the value that the field is referring to (e.g. the actual object refered to by the field).
I think dubwai's questions about "what are you trying to do" are very relevant. Using reflection like this usually means the design is lacking some important functionality