Reflecting methods of parent class

Question

I have a class named ParentClass with a public method named getName that takes a String as a paramenter and returns a String.
If I extend ParentClass, how can I use reflection to access the getName method of the parent (super) class? I get a NoSuchMethodException if I try to get the subclass to reflect any methods it inherits from its parent.

Answer 1

Also ,I modified the above example to print the method return value . It work fine.
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
public class TestReflection {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
          SubClass cls = new SubClass();
          Method m = cls.getClass().getMethod("getName", new Class[] {String.class});
          System.out.println(m.invoke(cls,new Object[] {new String("testing name")}));
class ParentClass {
     public String getName(String s) {
     return s;
class SubClass extends ParentClass {}