Access to private inherited fields via reflection in Java

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This should demonstrate how to solve it:

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

class Super {
    private int i = 5;
}

public class B extends Super {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        B b = new B();
        Field f = b.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredField("i");
        f.setAccessible(true);
        System.out.println(f.get(b));
    }
}

(Or Class.getDeclaredFields for an array of all fields.)

Output:

5

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