Hello. I'm writing a small tool to analyze the APIs of Java 9 modules. I'm analyzing the bytecode statically with ASM and have run into a slight problem: In order to properly analyze a class, I also need to analyze the superclasses and, in some cases, the superclasses can be platform classes.
Given a platform class name such as "java/io/InputStream", is it possible to retrieve the raw bytes for the named class in a portable (read: non-platform-specific, non-JVM-specific) manner? In the olden days, we'd probably have gone rummaging in rt.jar, but that was obviously a hack and wasn't future-proof. My tool is only designed to work with JDK 9 and up. Note that I'm *not* asking to get from loaded Class<?> instances to bytes: I'm analyzing classes statically and none of the analyzed classes will actually be loaded by any ClassLoader. -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com
