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Why do my outputs produce nothing but false?

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
package Test;
class Outer
{
private Inner variable = new Inner();
class Inner
{
Inner()
{}
}
Outer()
{}
Inner getInner()
{
return variable;
}
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
package Test;
import static java.lang.System.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String ...args)
{
Outer outer = new Outer();
Outer.Inner inner = outer.getInner();
out.println(outer.getClass().isAnonymousClass());
out.println(outer.getClass().isSynthetic());
out.println(inner.getClass().isAnonymousClass());
out.println(inner.getClass().isSynthetic());
out.println(Outer.class.isAnonymousClass());
out.println(Outer.Inner.class.isAnonymousClass());
out.println(Outer.class.isSynthetic());
out.println(Outer.Inner.class.isSynthetic());
}
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Answers
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Your isAnonymousClass() all return false because the class is not anonymous, your inner is an inner class, not an anonymous class.
To get a Synthetic class you need to use reflection to create the object. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/399546/synthetic-class-in-java