Java tutorial
import java.lang.reflect.Array; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.Map; import java.util.StringTokenizer; /* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ public class Main { /** Primitive type name -> class map. */ private static final Map PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP = new HashMap(); /** Setup the primitives map. */ static { PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("boolean", Boolean.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("byte", Byte.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("char", Character.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("short", Short.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("int", Integer.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("long", Long.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("float", Float.TYPE); PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.put("double", Double.TYPE); } /** * Convert a list of Strings from an Interator into an array of Classes (the * Strings are taken as classnames). * * @param it * A java.util.Iterator pointing to a Collection of Strings * @param cl * The ClassLoader to use * * @return Array of Classes * * @throws ClassNotFoundException * When a class could not be loaded from the specified ClassLoader */ public final static Class<?>[] convertToJavaClasses(Iterator<String> it, ClassLoader cl) throws ClassNotFoundException { ArrayList<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>(); while (it.hasNext()) { classes.add(convertToJavaClass(it.next(), cl)); } return classes.toArray(new Class[classes.size()]); } /** * Convert a given String into the appropriate Class. * * @param name * Name of class * @param cl * ClassLoader to use * * @return The class for the given name * * @throws ClassNotFoundException * When the class could not be found by the specified ClassLoader */ private final static Class convertToJavaClass(String name, ClassLoader cl) throws ClassNotFoundException { int arraySize = 0; while (name.endsWith("[]")) { name = name.substring(0, name.length() - 2); arraySize++; } // Check for a primitive type Class c = (Class) PRIMITIVE_NAME_TYPE_MAP.get(name); if (c == null) { // No primitive, try to load it from the given ClassLoader try { c = cl.loadClass(name); } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) { throw new ClassNotFoundException("Parameter class not found: " + name); } } // if we have an array get the array class if (arraySize > 0) { int[] dims = new int[arraySize]; for (int i = 0; i < arraySize; i++) { dims[i] = 1; } c = Array.newInstance(c, dims).getClass(); } return c; } }