Package dk.netarkivet.common.utils.batch

Class ByteClassLoader

java.lang.Object

java.lang.ClassLoader

dk.netarkivet.common.utils.batch.ByteClassLoader

public class ByteClassLoader
extends ClassLoader

A subclass of ClassLoader that can take a byte[] containing a class file.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ByteClassLoader(byte[] bytes)	Constructor taking a class as an array of bytes.
ByteClassLoader(File binaryFile)	Constructor that reads data from a file.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Class	defineClass()	Define the class that this class loader knows about.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.ClassLoader

clearAssertionStatus, defineClass, defineClass, defineClass, defineClass, definePackage, findClass, findClass, findLibrary, findLoadedClass, findResource, findResource, findResources, findSystemClass, getClassLoadingLock, getDefinedPackage, getDefinedPackages, getName, getPackage, getPackages, getParent, getPlatformClassLoader, getResource, getResourceAsStream, getResources, getSystemClassLoader, getSystemResource, getSystemResourceAsStream, getSystemResources, getUnnamedModule, isRegisteredAsParallelCapable, loadClass, loadClass, registerAsParallelCapable, resolveClass, resources, setClassAssertionStatus, setDefaultAssertionStatus, setPackageAssertionStatus, setSigners

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ByteClassLoader

public ByteClassLoader(File binaryFile)

Constructor that reads data from a file.

Parameters:

binaryFile - A file containing a Java class.

ByteClassLoader

public ByteClassLoader(byte[] bytes)

Constructor taking a class as an array of bytes.

Parameters:

bytes - Array of bytes containing a class definition.

Method Detail

defineClass

public Class defineClass()

Define the class that this class loader knows about. The name of the class is taken from the data given in the constructor.

Note that this does *not* override any of the java.lang.ClassLoader#defineClass methods. Calling this method directly is the only way to get the class defined by this classloader.

Returns:

A new Class object for this class.