How to know original class name if wrapped into proxy by Spring?

Question

I am trying to obtain some classes name by getClass().getSimpleName() under Spring and it returns something like

MyClass$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$SOMEHEX

This is probably because Spring wraps the class into proxy.

Is there any portable way to obtain original class name?

Why do you want to do this? – Sotirios Delimanolis Apr 01 '15 at 15:52 — Sotirios Delimanolis, Apr 01 '15 at 15:52
Is there any reason why this should not be done? – James Watkins May 18 '17 at 17:07 — James Watkins, May 18 '17 at 17:07

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '17 at 17:09

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Spring provides a utility for this.

public static Class<?> getUserClass(Class<?> clazz)

"Return the user-defined class for the given class: usually simply the given class, but the original class in case of a CGLIB-generated subclass."

answered May 18 '17 at 17:09

James Watkins

I forgot to mention: this only works for objects proxied by spring. There is no general solution for detecting the target type of any given proxy. The way I solve this is by explicitly defining the target type of my proxies external to the proxy itself. – James Watkins Dec 21 '17 at 15:50
Thank you! This worked while other suggestions such as `TargetAwareClass` failed on class cast exception. – Don Rhummy Mar 14 '19 at 00:51
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In spring boot: `log.debug(ClassUtils.getUserClass(constraintDescriptor.getAnnotation()).getName());` is `com.sun.proxy.$Proxy153` :-/ – e-info128 Aug 11 '20 at 07:23
How it works when Spring creates the proxy class using JDK dynamic proxies mechanism instead of cglib? – amseager Oct 01 '20 at 07:49
@e-info128 : did you find a solution ? – serv-inc Dec 22 '21 at 14:18

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