Can you find all classes in a package using reflection?

Question

Is it possible to find all classes or interfaces in a given package? (Quickly looking at e.g. Package, it would seem like no.)

Answer 1

plain java: FindAllClassesUsingPlainJavaReflectionTest.java

@Slf4j
class FindAllClassesUsingPlainJavaReflectionTest {

  private static final Function asRuntimeException = throwable -> {
    log.error(throwable.getLocalizedMessage());
    return new RuntimeException(throwable);
  };

  private static final Function>> findAllPackageClasses = basePackageName -> {

    Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
    Charset charset = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
    val fileManager = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler()
                                  .getStandardFileManager(/* diagnosticListener */ null, locale, charset);

    StandardLocation location = StandardLocation.CLASS_PATH;
    JavaFileObject.Kind kind = JavaFileObject.Kind.CLASS;
    Set kinds = Collections.singleton(kind);
    val javaFileObjects = Try.of(() -> fileManager.list(location, basePackageName, kinds, /* recurse */ true))
                             .getOrElseThrow(asRuntimeException);

    String pathToPackageAndClass = basePackageName.replace(".", File.separator);
    Function mapToClassName = s -> {
      String prefix = Arrays.stream(s.split(pathToPackageAndClass))
                            .findFirst()
                            .orElse("");
      return s.replaceFirst(prefix, "")
              .replaceAll(File.separator, ".");
    };

    return StreamSupport.stream(javaFileObjects.spliterator(), /* parallel */ true)
                        .filter(javaFileObject -> javaFileObject.getKind().equals(kind))
                        .map(FileObject::getName)
                        .map(fileObjectName -> fileObjectName.replace(".class", ""))
                        .map(mapToClassName)
                        .map(className -> Try.of(() -> Class.forName(className))
                                             .getOrElseThrow(asRuntimeException))
                        .collect(Collectors.toList());
  };

  @Test
  @DisplayName("should get classes recursively in given package")
  void test() {
    Collection> classes = findAllPackageClasses.apply(getClass().getPackage().getName());
    assertThat(classes).hasSizeGreaterThan(4);
    classes.stream().map(String::valueOf).forEach(log::info);
  }
}

PS: to simplify boilerplates for handling errors, etc, I'm using here vavr and lombok libraries

other implementations could be found in my GitHub daggerok/java-reflection-find-annotated-classes-or-methods repo