is ClassLoader.loadClass() supposed to work on module-info classes?

Stephane Epardaud stef at epardaud.fr
Wed Dec 2 11:01:46 UTC 2015


Just tried it and got:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class
name "com.ceylon.java9.Test" in class file module-info
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(java.base at 9.0/Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.base at 9.0/ClassLoader.java:854)
    at
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.base at 9.0/SecureClassLoader.java:152)
    at
java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(java.base at 9.0/URLClassLoader.java:462)
    at
java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(java.base at 9.0/URLClassLoader.java:75)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(java.base at 9.0/URLClassLoader.java:370)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(java.base at 9.0/URLClassLoader.java:364)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(java.base at 9.0/Native
Method)
    at
java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.base at 9.0/URLClassLoader.java:363)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base at 9.0/ClassLoader.java:440)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base at 9.0/ClassLoader.java:373)

I know it works for package-info.class files, but is it supposed to work
with module-info.class files too? Or is it just not implemented yet?

Cheers.


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