How can I dynamically look up a static class member in Clojure?

Question

In Clojure I can look up a static member of a Java class (e.g. a field holding a constant) like this:

ClassName/CONSTANT_FIELD

How can I access the member when I only know it's name at runtime? An example would be looping over a sequence of field names and getting all the field values.

I would like to do something like this (this code is not working, of course):

(let [c "CONSTANT_FIELD"]
  ClassName/c)

What's the best way to do that?

Answer 1

You can use Java's reflection API.

(let [c "CONSTANT_FIELD"]
  (.get (.getField ClassName c) nil))

The nil is there because you are getting a static field, rather than a member field of a particular object.