More updates to the ClassFinder....
You can now construct the finder with exactly the list of classes you
want to search for annotations. It uses var args too, so you can
easily specify one class if you like. Convenient for when you have
some of the code that "picks" which class or classes should be
scraped for annotated methods, fields, constructors, etc.
I also added a 'findClassesInPackage' method that allows you to suck
in all the classes under a certain package name. This can be done
recursively or not.
-David
On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:47 PM, David Blevins wrote:
On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:13 PM, David Blevins wrote:
So added a finder for searching for classes that have a specific
annotation, etc. It's there it works and is better than some of
the code i've seen that does the same, but... I still hate it as
like all the approaches I've seen it loads the classes and uses
reflection to determine if the annotation is present.
This is the most insecure code I can think of, so I'm yanking it
in leu of an asm-based approach. So take this as your warning not
to start consuming the ClassFinder just yet.
Done. It's now ASM-based and you can lookup any of the following
annotated things:
- Packages
- Classes
- Constructors
- Methods
- Fields
Reflection does not occur till you ask for a set of classes that
have the annotation you require. The loaded classes are then kept
for future use.
-David
