How to get the MethodInfo of a Java 8 method reference?

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No, there is no reliable, supported way to do this. You assign a method reference to an instance of a functional interface, but that instance is cooked up by LambdaMetaFactory, and there is no way to drill into it to find the method you originally bound to.

Lambdas and method references in Java work quite differently than delegates in C#. For some interesting background, read up on invokedynamic.

Other answers and comments here show that it may currently be possible to retrieve the bound method with some additional work, but make sure you understand the caveats.

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