Util Mirror: Reflection made easy

Yo! Here's a tool that makes Reflection super simple, it's called Mirror. If you don't like it, change it on GitHub.

Let's say you have an object.

Code:

String i = "This is some text."

And you want to call some private methods on it. With Mirror, you can!

The first thing you want to do is statically import Mirror.

Code:

import static mirror.Mirror;

This allows you to use the main method in Mirror without calling the class.

Code:

$(i);

Now let's call the split method (pretending it is a private method).

Code:

String[] a = $(i).getMethod("split", String.class).invoke(" ");

Just like if we called

Code:

i.split(" ");

Want to change a field? It's even easier!

Code:

//           name, value
$(i).setField("hash", -5);

And let's get the field!

Code:

//                <typeToReturn>    name
int hash = $(i).<Integer>getField("hash"); //returns -5

Now, what on earth does this have to do with Bukkit?
Here's a simple example of getting a Player's Connection (thanks @Skionz).

Code:

public Object getConnection(Player p){
    Object nmsPlayer = $(p).getMethod("getHandle").invoke();
    return $(nmsPlayer).<Object>getField("playerconnection");
}

All the code is on GitHub.