objmembers

Objmembers is a term used to denote the set of members associated with a specific object in object-oriented programming and reflection contexts. Members typically include fields or properties (data attributes) and methods (behaviors) defined by the object's class, and may include inherited members depending on the language’s rules and the visibility settings.

Scope and interpretation vary by language. In some environments, objmembers encompasses only publicly accessible members; in others, reflection APIs can expose private or protected members as well. The exact structure—names, types, and whether a member is a property, method, static, or instance member—depends on the language and on the reflection or introspection tools being used.

Common uses. objmembers are examined during debugging, dynamic binding, serialization, and tooling that inspects or manipulates objects at runtime. They enable listing available attributes and behaviors, querying types, and inspecting metadata such as parameter lists or return types.

Examples. In pseudocode, objmembers = getMembers(myObj) might return a collection with entries like {name: "width", kind: "property", type: int, visibility: public} and {name: "draw", kind: "method", parameters: [], visibility: public}. In practice, languages provide built-in mechanisms to obtain similar information, though the exact API and visibility rules differ (for example, Python’s dir or __dict__, Java or C# reflection).

See also. Reflection, introspection, object model, data serialization.