Hi! adding a method to already existing class

[Koduru, Rajendra Kumar Reddy]

Hi 
  i am trying to add a method to already existing class and update the
class file with the method.

  My code is follows

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.bcel.*;
import org.apache.bcel.classfile.*;
import org.apache.bcel.generic.*;

public class addMethodBCEL{

         public static void main( String args[] ) throws IOException {

                    ClassParser cparse = new
ClassParser("HelloBCEL.class");
                    JavaClass clazz = cparse.parse();
                    ClassGen cg = new ClassGen(clazz);
                    ConstantPool cp1 = clazz.getConstantPool();
                    ConstantPoolGen cp = new ConstantPoolGen(cp1); 
                    InstructionFactory factory = new
InstructionFactory(cp);
                    Method addmeth = addMethod(clazz,cp,factory);

                    cg.addMethod(addmeth);
                 try {
        
cg.getJavaClass().setConstantPool(cg.getConstantPool().getFinalConstantP
ool()); // i think it is wrong here..
                    cg.getJavaClass().dump(clazz.getClassName() +
".class");
                    }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);} 

                
        }


        public static Method addMethod(JavaClass clazz, ConstantPoolGen
cp, InstructionFactory factory){
                        InstructionList il1 = new InstructionList();
                        MethodGen mg = new
MethodGen(Constants.ACC_STATIC | Constants.ACC_PUBLIC, Type.INT,
Type.NO_ARGS, new String[]{},"getMarks",clazz.getClassName(), il1, cp) ;
                        il1.append(new PUSH(cp,10));
                        il1.append(factory.createReturn(Type.INT));
                        mg.setMaxStack();
                        return mg.getMethod();
                }
}


    and when i am trying to execute HelloBCEL.class, the class that is
updated i the above code, it gives me an exception stating 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: HelloBCEL
(Illegal consta
nt pool index)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)


 could you please let me know, where i am wrong. 

Hope that you can help me in this regard.

Thank you
Reddy

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