How to use URLClassLoader to load a *.class file?
- by DeletedAccount
I'm playing around with Reflection and I thought I'd make something which loads a class and prints the names of all fields in the class.
I've made a small hello world type of class to have something to inspect:
kent@rat:~/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin$ ls
IndependentClass.class
kent@rat:~/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin$ java IndependentClass
Hello! Goodbye!
kent@rat:~/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin$ pwd
/home/kent/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin
kent@rat:~/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin$
Based on the above I draw two conclusions:
It exists at /home/kent/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin/IndependentClass.class
It works! (So it must be a proper .class-file which can be loaded by a class loader)
Then the code which is to use Reflection: (Line which causes an exception is marked)
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
public class InspectClass {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException, MalformedURLException {
URL classUrl;
classUrl = new URL("file:///home/kent/eclipsews/SmallExample/bin/IndependentClass.class");
URL[] classUrls = { classUrl };
URLClassLoader ucl = new URLClassLoader(classUrls);
Class c = ucl.loadClass("IndependentClass"); // LINE 14
for(Field f: c.getDeclaredFields()) {
System.out.println("Field name" + f.getName());
}
}
}
But when I run it I get:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: IndependentClass
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at InspectClass.main(InspectClass.java:14)
My questions:
What am I doing wrong above? How do I fix it?
Is there a way to load several class files and iterate over them?
