How to get all classes names in a package?

Question

So I have a package that has classes that extend JPanel and I want to add them as tabs dynamically. At the beginning I used a factory and I registered all the classes in it and it worked, but now I want load all the classes in the package without knowing their names. I've tried several things including Reflections library (which I found very confusing) and I couldn't get them to work. I appreciate any help.

Here's one of my trials:

public static void registerTab() {
    String pkg = TabA.class.getPackage().getName();
    String relPath = pkg.replace('.', '/');

    URL resource = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource(relPath);
    if (resource == null) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected problem: No resource for "
                + relPath);
    }

    File f = new File(resource.getPath());

    String[] files = f.list();

    for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {

        String fileName = files[i];
        String className = null;
        String fileNm = null;

        if (fileName.endsWith(".class")) {

            fileNm = fileName.substring(0, fileName.length() - 6);
            className = pkg + '.' + fileNm;
        }

        if (className != null) {

            if (!tabClasses.containsKey(className))
                tabClasses.put(fileNm, className);
        }
    }
}

What went wrong with reflection? – Sudhanshu Umalkar Mar 20 '13 at 09:26 — Sudhanshu Umalkar, Mar 20 '13 at 09:26

sp00m · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-21T10:14:09.630

Here is a custom solution I developed to find all the classes of a package:

public class ClassFinder {

    private static final char PKG_SEPARATOR = '.';

    private static final char DIR_SEPARATOR = '/';

    private static final String CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX = ".class";

    private static final String BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR = "Unable to get resources from path '%s'. Are you sure the package '%s' exists?";

    public static List<Class<?>> find(String scannedPackage) {
        String scannedPath = scannedPackage.replace(PKG_SEPARATOR, DIR_SEPARATOR);
        URL scannedUrl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(scannedPath);
        if (scannedUrl == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR, scannedPath, scannedPackage));
        }
        File scannedDir = new File(scannedUrl.getFile());
        List<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
        for (File file : scannedDir.listFiles()) {
            classes.addAll(find(file, scannedPackage));
        }
        return classes;
    }

    private static List<Class<?>> find(File file, String scannedPackage) {
        List<Class<?>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<?>>();
        String resource = scannedPackage + PKG_SEPARATOR + file.getName();
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            for (File child : file.listFiles()) {
                classes.addAll(find(child, resource));
            }
        } else if (resource.endsWith(CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX)) {
            int endIndex = resource.length() - CLASS_FILE_SUFFIX.length();
            String className = resource.substring(0, endIndex);
            try {
                classes.add(Class.forName(className));
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ignore) {
            }
        }
        return classes;
    }

}

Then, just use:

List<Class<?>> classes = ClassFinder.find("com.package");

It returns an empty list. I used it like this `List> cls=ClassFinder.find(TabA.class.getPackage().getName());` — Tareq, Mar 20 '13 at 09:54
@Tareq Is `TabA` in a JAR or directly within the *classes* folder of your project? This solution works only in the second case. — sp00m, Mar 20 '13 at 09:57
@Tareq Then, this should work... I can't find out why you can't make it work without having your project in front of me, really sorry. Try to see what the `resources` enumeration contains in a debug mode. — sp00m, Mar 20 '13 at 10:17
You can use getResources to make sure you get all classes: Enumeration resources = cld.getResources(scannedPackage); List> classes = new ArrayList<>(); while (resources.hasMoreElements()) { — gkephorus, Nov 09 '15 at 15:10

How to get all classes names in a package?

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