Class utilities.
*
* @version $Revision: 1.3.2.1 $
* @author Jason Dillon
*/
public final class Classes
{
/** The string used to separator packages */
public static final String PACKAGE_SEPARATOR = ".";
/** The characther used to separator packages */
public static final char PACKAGE_SEPARATOR_CHAR = '.';
/** The default package name. */
public static final String DEFAULT_PACKAGE_NAME = "This method attempts to locate a static method on the given class
* the attempts to invoke it with dummy arguments in the hope that
* the virtual machine will prepare the class for the method call and
* call all of the static class initializers.
*
* @param type Class to force load.
*
* @throws NullArgumentException Type is null.
*/
public static void forceLoad(final Class type) {
if (type == null)
throw new NullArgumentException("type");
// don't attempt to force primitives to load
if (type.isPrimitive()) return;
// don't attempt to force java.* classes to load
String packageName = Classes.getPackageName(type);
// System.out.println("package name: " + packageName);
if (packageName.startsWith("java.") ||
packageName.startsWith("javax.")) {
return;
}
// System.out.println("forcing class to load: " + type);
try {
Method methods[] = type.getDeclaredMethods();
Method method = null;
for (int i=0; i
* For example, "boolean" returns Boolean.TYPE and so on...
*
* @param name Primitive type name (boolean, int, byte, ...)
* @return Primitive type or null.
*
* @exception IllegalArgumentException Type is not a primitive class
*/
public static Class getPrimitiveTypeForName(final String name) {
return (Class)PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.get(name);
}
/** Map of primitive types to their wrapper classes */
private static final Class[] PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP = {
Boolean.TYPE, Boolean.class,
Byte.TYPE, Byte.class,
Character.TYPE, Character.class,
Double.TYPE, Double.class,
Float.TYPE, Float.class,
Integer.TYPE, Integer.class,
Long.TYPE, Long.class,
Short.TYPE, Short.class,
};
/**
* Get the wrapper class for the given primitive type.
*
* @param type Primitive class.
* @return Wrapper class for primitive.
*
* @exception IllegalArgumentException Type is not a primitive class
*/
public static Class getPrimitiveWrapper(final Class type) {
if (! type.isPrimitive()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("type is not a primitive class");
}
for (int i=0; i < PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP.length; i += 2) {
if (type.equals(PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP[i]))
return PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP[i + 1];
}
// should never get here, if we do then PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP
// needs to be updated to include the missing mapping
throw new UnreachableStatementException();
}
/**
* Check if the given class is a primitive wrapper class.
*
* @param type Class to check.
* @return True if the class is a primitive wrapper.
*/
public static boolean isPrimitiveWrapper(final Class type) {
for (int i=0; i < PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP.length; i += 2) {
if (type.equals(PRIMITIVE_WRAPPER_MAP[i + 1])) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
/**
* Check if the given class is a primitive class or a primitive
* wrapper class.
*
* @param type Class to check.
* @return True if the class is a primitive or primitive wrapper.
*/
public static boolean isPrimitive(final Class type) {
if (type.isPrimitive() || isPrimitiveWrapper(type)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Class Loading //
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/**
* This method acts equivalently to invoking
* Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(className); but it also
* supports primitive types and array classes of object types or primitive types.
*
* @param className the qualified name of the class or the name of primitive type or
* array in the same format as returned by the
* java.lang.Class.getName() method.
* @return the Class object for the requested className
*
* @throws ClassNotFoundException when the classLoader can not find the requested class
*/
public static Class loadClass(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException {
return loadClass( className, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() );
}
/**
* This method acts equivalently to invoking classLoader.loadClass(className);
* but it also supports primitive types and array classes of object types or primitive types.
*
* @param className the qualified name of the class or the name of primitive type or array
* in the same format as returned by the java.lang.Class.getName()
* method.
* @param classLoader the ClassLoader used to load classes
* @return the Class object for the requested className
*
* @throws ClassNotFoundException when the classLoader can not find the requested class
*/
public static Class loadClass(String className, ClassLoader classLoader)
throws ClassNotFoundException
{
// ClassLoader.loadClass() does not handle primitive types:
//
// B byte
// C char
// D double
// F float
// I int
// J long
// S short
// Z boolean
// V void
//
if (className.length() == 1)
{
char type = className.charAt(0);
if (type == 'B') return Byte.TYPE;
if (type == 'C') return Character.TYPE;
if (type == 'D') return Double.TYPE;
if (type == 'F') return Float.TYPE;
if (type == 'I') return Integer.TYPE;
if (type == 'J') return Long.TYPE;
if (type == 'S') return Short.TYPE;
if (type == 'Z') return Boolean.TYPE;
if (type == 'V') return Void.TYPE;
// else throw...
throw new ClassNotFoundException(className);
}
// ...nore does this special notation:
//
// Lclassname; class or interface
//
if (className.charAt(0) == 'L' && className.charAt(className.length() - 1) == ';')
return classLoader.loadClass(className.substring(1, className.length() - 1));
// first try - be optimistic
// this will succeed for all non-array classes and array classes that have already been resolved
//
try
{
return classLoader.loadClass(className);
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
{
// if it was non-array class then throw it
if (className.charAt(0) != '[')
throw e;
}
// we are now resolving array class for the first time
// count opening braces
int arrayDimension = 0;
while (className.charAt(arrayDimension) == '[')
arrayDimension++;
// resolve component type - use recursion so that we can resolve primitive types also
Class componentType = loadClass(className.substring(arrayDimension), classLoader);
// construct array class
return Array.newInstance(componentType, new int[arrayDimension]).getClass();
}
/**
* Convert a list of Strings from an Interator into an array of
* Classes (the Strings are taken as classnames).
*
* @param it A java.util.Iterator pointing to a Collection of Strings
* @param cl The ClassLoader to use
*
* @return Array of Classes
*
* @throws ClassNotFoundException When a class could not be loaded from
* the specified ClassLoader
*/
public final static Class[] convertToJavaClasses( Iterator it,
ClassLoader cl )
throws ClassNotFoundException
{
ArrayList classes = new ArrayList();
while( it.hasNext() )
{
classes.add( convertToJavaClass((String)it.next(), cl) );
}
return (Class[]) classes.toArray( new Class[classes.size()] );
}
/**
* Convert a given String into the appropriate Class.
*
* @param name Name of class
* @param cl ClassLoader to use
*
* @return The class for the given name
*
* @throws ClassNotFoundException When the class could not be found by
* the specified ClassLoader
*/
private final static Class convertToJavaClass( String name,
ClassLoader cl )
throws ClassNotFoundException
{
int arraySize = 0;
while( name.endsWith("[]"))
{
name = name.substring( 0, name.length() - 2 );
arraySize++;
}
// Check for a primitive type
Class c = (Class)PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.get( name );
if( c == null )
{
// No primitive, try to load it from the given ClassLoader
try
{
c = cl.loadClass( name );
}
catch( ClassNotFoundException cnfe )
{
throw new ClassNotFoundException( "Parameter class not found: " +
name );
}
}
// if we have an array get the array class
if( arraySize > 0 )
{
int[] dims = new int[arraySize];
for( int i = 0; i < arraySize; i++ )
{
dims[i] = 1;
}
c = Array.newInstance(c, dims).getClass();
}
return c;
}
}
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