Where does the class member come from?

Question

Every Java class X can get its class name from X.class.

When I check it in the JDK documents, there isn't a member named class in Object.

Where does the class member come from?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '20 at 06:43

Foo.class is not a member of Foo, even though the syntax looks like it.

Foo.class is actually a Class Literal expression.

That means that it's just a special syntax in the language that's used to refer to the class of a given type.

If you used reflection to inspect Foo you wouldn't see a static field class.

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