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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