How to access method properties at compile-time?

Question

I would like to access the usual reflection properties of a specific method without relying on String s.

Is there any way to get from the method- Identifier to its reflection properties, like parameter types?

void run() {
    java.lang.reflect.Method m = myMethod.getMethod(); // how? 
    Class<?>[] argClasses = m.getParameterTypes();
}

int myMethod(String arg) {
   // ...
}

The piece myMethod.getMethod() is not valid. It is my way of saying "get from the method-identifier to the java.lang.reflect.Method object".

The string-way I do not want to use would be similar to m = getClass().getDeclaredMethod("myMethod", ...)

I use myMethod like a regular identifier and not as a String, ie "myMethod" . I think this would be beneficial for refactoring, where someone renames myMethod to hisMethod -- the relation via the String -name would break, where the relation via the identifier would be refactored as well.

Answer 1

In java methods aren't first class citizens, so there is no solutions in Java for this problem.

Yet I had a similar problem and forged a small tool named picklock for this purpose.