So I have a package that has classes that extend JPanel and I want to add them as tabs dynamically. At the beginning I used a factory and I registered all the classes in it and it worked, but now I want load all the classes in the package without knowing their names. I've tried several things including Reflections library (which I found very confusing) and I couldn't get them to work. I appreciate any help.
Here's one of my trials:
public static void registerTab() {
String pkg = TabA.class.getPackage().getName();
String relPath = pkg.replace('.', '/');
URL resource = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource(relPath);
if (resource == null) {
throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected problem: No resource for "
+ relPath);
}
File f = new File(resource.getPath());
String[] files = f.list();
for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
String fileName = files[i];
String className = null;
String fileNm = null;
if (fileName.endsWith(".class")) {
fileNm = fileName.substring(0, fileName.length() - 6);
className = pkg + '.' + fileNm;
}
if (className != null) {
if (!tabClasses.containsKey(className))
tabClasses.put(fileNm, className);
}
}
}
Here is a custom solution I developed to find all the classes of a package:
public class ClassFinder {
private static final char PKG_SEPARATOR = '.';
private static final char DIR_SEPARATOR = '/';
private static final String CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX = ".class";
private static final String BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR = "Unable to get resources from path '%s'. Are you sure the package '%s' exists?";
public static List<Class<?>> find(String scannedPackage) {
String scannedPath = scannedPackage.replace(PKG_SEPARATOR, DIR_SEPARATOR);
URL scannedUrl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(scannedPath);
if (scannedUrl == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR, scannedPath, scannedPackage));
}
File scannedDir = new File(scannedUrl.getFile());
List<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
for (File file : scannedDir.listFiles()) {
classes.addAll(find(file, scannedPackage));
}
return classes;
}
private static List<Class<?>> find(File file, String scannedPackage) {
List<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
String resource = scannedPackage + PKG_SEPARATOR + file.getName();
if (file.isDirectory()) {
for (File child : file.listFiles()) {
classes.addAll(find(child, resource));
}
} else if (resource.endsWith(CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX)) {
int endIndex = resource.length() - CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX.length();
String className = resource.substring(0, endIndex);
try {
classes.add(Class.forName(className));
} catch (ClassNotFoundException ignore) {
}
}
return classes;
}
}
Then, just use:
List<Class<?>> classes = ClassFinder.find("com.package");
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