Consider the following code:

class Foo(var name: String = "bar")

Now i try to get the value and the correct type of it via reflection:

val foo = new Foo
val field = foo.getDeclaredField("name")
field.setAccessible(true)
//This is where it doesn't work
val value = field.get(????)

I tried things like field.get(foo), but that just returns an java.lang.Object but no String. Basically I need the correct type, because I want to invoke a method on it (e. g. toCharArray).

What is the suggested way to do that?