RFR: 8353917: jnativescan: Simplify ClassResolver [v2]

Jorn Vernee jvernee at openjdk.org
Wed Apr 9 16:00:52 UTC 2025


> `jnativescan` uses the `ClassResolver` class to find both system classes, as well as application classes. In principle, a class resolver supports both iterating over all classes from that particular source, as well as looking up classes by name. However, the `ClassResolver` for system classes doesn't support iterating, and the lookup functionality for `ClassResolvers` from other sources is never used (only iterating).
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> This patch proposes to split the iterating functionality out of `ClassResolver`. Clients that were using this functionality will switch to using the iteration functionality that is available on `ClassFileSource` directly (whose classes were previously being wrapped in a `ClassResolver`). As a result of this latter change, we can now also let `NativeMethodFinder` operate on individual classes. We just iterate over all the class file sources in `JNativeScanTask`, and feed individual class models to `NativeMethodFinder`. I think this is a good conceptual simplification of `NativeMethodFinder`,
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> Since `ClassResolver` is now only used for system classes, I've removed it, leaving only its single implementation: `SystemClassResolver`.
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> Testing: running `langtools_jnativescan` test suite.

Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains four commits:

 - Merge branch 'master' into jnativescan_Refactor
 - bump copyright years
 - merge ClassResolver and SystemClassResolver
 - Simplify ClassResolver

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24493/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=24493&range=01
  Stats: 371 lines in 5 files changed: 147 ins; 191 del; 33 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24493.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/24493/head:pull/24493

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24493


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