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 just wrote a util class, it include test methods, you can have a check ~

IteratePackageUtil.java:

package eric.j2se.reflect;

import java.util.Set;

import org.reflections.Reflections;
import org.reflections.scanners.ResourcesScanner;
import org.reflections.scanners.SubTypesScanner;
import org.reflections.util.ClasspathHelper;
import org.reflections.util.ConfigurationBuilder;
import org.reflections.util.FilterBuilder;

/**
 * an util to iterate class in a package,
 * 
 * @author eric
 * @date Dec 10, 2013 12:36:46 AM
 */
public class IteratePackageUtil {
    /**
     * 

     * Get set of all class in a specified package recursively. this only support lib
     * 
     * 

     * class of sub package will be included, inner class will be included,
     * 
     * 

     * could load class that use the same classloader of current class, can't load system packages,
     * 
     * 
     * @param pkg
     *            path of a package
     * @return
     */
    public static Set> getClazzSet(String pkg) {
        // prepare reflection, include direct subclass of Object.class
        Reflections reflections = new Reflections(new ConfigurationBuilder().setScanners(new SubTypesScanner(false), new ResourcesScanner())
                .setUrls(ClasspathHelper.forClassLoader(ClasspathHelper.classLoaders(new ClassLoader[0])))
                .filterInputsBy(new FilterBuilder().includePackage(pkg)));

        return reflections.getSubTypesOf(Object.class);
    }

    public static void test() {
        String pkg = "org.apache.tomcat.util";

        Set> clazzSet = getClazzSet(pkg);
        for (Class clazz : clazzSet) {
            System.out.println(clazz.getName());
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        test();
    }
}