javassist.ClassPath Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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* Javassist, a Java-bytecode translator toolkit.
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package javassist;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
/**
* ClassPath is an interface implemented by objects
* representing a class search path.
* ClassPool uses those objects for reading class files.
*
* The users can define a class implementing this interface so that
* a class file is obtained from a non-standard source.
*
* @see ClassPool#insertClassPath(ClassPath)
* @see ClassPool#appendClassPath(ClassPath)
* @see ClassPool#removeClassPath(ClassPath)
*/
public interface ClassPath {
/**
* Opens a class file.
* This method may be called just to examine whether the class file
* exists as well as to read the contents of the file.
*
*
This method can return null if the specified class file is not
* found. If null is returned, the next search path is examined.
* However, if an error happens, this method must throw an exception
* so that the search will be terminated.
*
*
This method should not modify the contents of the class file.
*
* @param classname a fully-qualified class name
* @return the input stream for reading a class file
* @see javassist.Translator
*/
InputStream openClassfile(String classname) throws NotFoundException;
/**
* Returns the uniform resource locator (URL) of the class file
* with the specified name.
*
* @param classname a fully-qualified class name.
* @return null if the specified class file could not be found.
*/
URL find(String classname);
}