Re: Replicating the class lookup process

Mark Raynsford <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:19:08 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.objectweb.asm
Organization	io7m.com
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On 2017-10-22T18:40:21 +0000
Mark Raynsford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My actual question: Do I need to implement the whole lookup process
> myself? It seems that in order to do so correctly, I'd need to
> duplicate at least some of the semantics that the VM implements
> (building a module graph, etc). It seems like it could also get a bit
> platform-specific: If I need to look at platform classes, then I'd need
> to be able to locate them on the user's system, and that could get
> unpleasant very quickly.

Actually, let me reduce the scope of my original question: Given a
platform class name such as "java/io/InputStream", is it possible to
retrieve a ClassNode for the named class in a portable (read:
non-platform-specific, non-JVM-specific) manner?

I obviously can't assume that the named class will be loaded in the VM,
or even if it was, that it would be accessible from the module I'm
executing in.

Implementing this for non-platform classes is easy, as I just have the
user specify their own module path and I load the modules myself.

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Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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