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Reflection is the ability of a computer program to examine, introspect, and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.
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Why should I use reflection?
Fundamentally, reflection means using the code of your program as data.
Therefore, using reflection might be a good idea when your program's code is a useful source of data. … Reflection allows you to define a new class using this algorithm. …
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Why is it a bad idea to create a generic setter and getter with reflection?
Downsides of reflection in general
Reflection is harder to understand than straight-line code.
In my experience, reflection is an "expert-level" feature in Java. … Reflection code is just slow in general
The dynamic method lookup and type checking necessary for reflection code is slower than normal method calls. …
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