In Javassist, is return order guaranteed?

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Javassist's CtClass has a few methods, such as getFields() and getMethods(). I was wondering if these methods offer any guarantee as to their ordering. Specifically, I'd like to know if a using getFields() on a class will produce and array of CtFields where the first field in the array is the first field declared in the file and so forth. So, is this order guaranteed? If not, is there anything that can offer this guarantee? The javadocs give no information on the matter. I've tried annotations that carry order (e.g. @X(1) private int first;), but it'd be easier if I could reflect this sort of thing without the need for annotations?

If it's still not clear, I'd like something like:

public class Class {
    public int x;
    public float y;
    public Object z;
}

to produce an array of CtFields specifically and consistently ordered x, y, z.

asked 1 min ago

Aaron Weiss

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