Get all classes from package

[rodrigorodriguescosta]

I have seen the example like
Set<Class<? extends Module>> modules = reflections.getSubTypesOf(com.google.inject.Module.class);

But, I'd like to get all classes from package wihout especified the class, something like

List clazz = reflections.getClassFromPackage("com.someproject.model");

is it possible? how can I do that with Reflection library?

[ronmamo]

What would be the next step after you get these classes? How would you act on them?

[rodrigorodriguescosta]

I need them (List of class) to call Class.forName("fullnameOfTheClass") cause there are many classes in many package and subpackage and I wouldn't manually write them.

[ronmamo]

So you basically want to print them? That's not the right usage for Reflections, although you can do it - See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/520328/can-you-find-all-classes-in-a-package-using-reflection

The right usage would be, for example, to get all sub types of some interface - and than you can act on these using the common interface. That would be programmatically meaningful. See the difference?

[rodrigorodriguescosta]

OK, I have fix it like this

//lista as classes do pacote "com.google", incluindo os subpacotes
Reflections r = new Reflections(
"com.google",
new SubTypesScanner(false),
ClasspathHelper.forClassLoader()
);
Set<Class<?>> classes = r.getSubTypesOf(Object.class);

This is exactly what I was looking for!

[allComputableThings]

@ronmamo I don't agree that acting on all class in a package is an invalid use case.
I have a package and I want to register all class in this package with a serialization framework. The classes have no common bases except Object and require no special annotations.

[ronmamo]

Good point. I agree.
It is a legitimate metadata.
On Apr 27, 2016 11:21 PM, "Stuart Reynolds" notifications@github.com
wrote:

@ronmamo https://github.com/ronmamo I don't agree that acting on all
class in a package is an invalid use case.
I have a package and I want to register all class in this package with
a serialization framework. The classes have no common bases except Object
and require no special annotations.

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