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

I've been trying to use the Reflections library, but had some problems using it, and there were too many jars I should include just to simply obtain the classes on a package.

I'll post a solution I've found in this duplicate question: How to get all classes names in a package?

The answer was written by sp00m; I've added some corrections to make it work:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

public final class ClassFinder {

    private final static char DOT = '.';
    private final static char SLASH = '/';
    private final static String CLASS_SUFFIX = ".class";
    private final static String BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR = "Unable to get resources from path '%s'. Are you sure the given '%s' package exists?";

    public final static List> find(final String scannedPackage) {
        final ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
        final String scannedPath = scannedPackage.replace(DOT, SLASH);
        final Enumeration resources;
        try {
            resources = classLoader.getResources(scannedPath);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(BAD_PACKAGE_ERROR, scannedPath, scannedPackage), e);
        }
        final List> classes = new LinkedList>();
        while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
            final File file = new File(resources.nextElement().getFile());
            classes.addAll(find(file, scannedPackage));
        }
        return classes;
    }

    private final static List> find(final File file, final String scannedPackage) {
        final List> classes = new LinkedList>();
        if (file.isDirectory()) {
            for (File nestedFile : file.listFiles()) {
                classes.addAll(find(nestedFile, scannedPackage));
            }
        //File names with the $1, $2 holds the anonymous inner classes, we are not interested on them. 
        } else if (file.getName().endsWith(CLASS_SUFFIX) && !file.getName().contains("$")) {

            final int beginIndex = 0;
            final int endIndex = file.getName().length() - CLASS_SUFFIX.length();
            final String className = file.getName().substring(beginIndex, endIndex);
            try {
                final String resource = scannedPackage + DOT + className;
                classes.add(Class.forName(resource));
            } catch (ClassNotFoundException ignore) {
            }
        }
        return classes;
    }

}

To use it just call the find method as sp00n mentioned in this example: I've added the creation of instances of the classes if needed.

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

ExcelReporting excelReporting;
for (Class aClass : classes) {
    Constructor constructor = aClass.getConstructor();
    //Create an object of the class type
    constructor.newInstance();
    //...
}