## Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Goffioul
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} javafields (@var{javaobj})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} javafields ("@var{classname}")
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{fld_names} =} javafields (@dots{})
## Return the fields of a Java object or Java class in the form of a cell 
## array of strings.  If no output is requested, print the result
## to the standard output.
## @seealso{fieldnames, methods, javaObject}
## @end deftypefn

function fld_names = javafields (javaobj)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "javafields is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use fieldnames instead");
  endif
  
  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif
  
  c_methods = javaMethod ("getFields", "org.octave.ClassHelper", javaobj);
  method_list = strsplit (c_methods, ';', false);

  if (nargout == 0)
    if (! isempty (method_list))
      disp (method_list);
    endif
  else
    fld_names = cellstr (method_list);
  endif

endfunction

