Attempt to find the given className within any of the packages. : Package « Reflection « Java






Attempt to find the given className within any of the packages.

        
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 * Copyright 2008 Ayman Al-Sairafi ayman.alsairafi@gmail.com
 *
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//package jsyntaxpane.util;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Member;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Reflection Utility methods
 * 
 * @author Ayman Al-Sairafi
 */
public class ReflectUtils {
     /**
     * Attempt to find the given className within any of the packages.
     * If the class is not found, then null is returned
     * @param className Fully or partially qualified classname within any of the packages
     * @param packages List of packages for search
     * @return CLass object or null if not found.
     */
    public static Class findClass(String className, List<String> packages) {
        try {
            return Class.forName(className);
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
        } catch (NoClassDefFoundError ex) {
        }
        for (String pack : packages) {
            try {
                return Class.forName(pack + "." + className);
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
            } catch (NoClassDefFoundError ex) {
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  








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