Why does this code snippet fail with IllegalArgumentException: wrong number of arguments
? Demonstrated code works with ordinary member and static methods, as well as with native declared ones...
public class Program {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ReflectiveOperationException {
//get native getDeclaredMethods method
Method Class$getDeclaredMethods0 = Class.class.getDeclaredMethod("getDeclaredMethods0", boolean.class);
Class$getDeclaredMethods0.setAccessible(true);
//call main
Method[] methods = (Method[]) Class$getDeclaredMethods0.invoke(Program.class, false);
Method main = methods[0];
main.invoke(null, args); // ← Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: wrong number of arguments
//at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
//at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
//at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
//at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
//at Program.main(Program.java:19)
//at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
//at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
//at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
//at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
//at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:134)
}
}
It's not clear why you're calling getDeclaredMethods
via reflection, but the invocation of main
is broken because you're trying to call it as if it had several String
parameters - one per value in args
. Instead, you want to pass a single argument, of type String[]
. You can do that like this:
main.invoke(null, new Object[] { args });
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