non-API classes displayed by jrt filesystem

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/10/2015 13:12, Philippe Marschall wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm toying around with the jrt filesystem [1]. I noted that non-API 
> classes are shown for java modules (see attachment). I assume this is 
> because jrt currently reports all classes in a module, not just the 
> exported ones (and these classes are not exported). Assuming this is 
> the intended behavior this is a bit inconvenient. One would have to 
> parse the module-info.class to find out what is exported. Some 
> possible solutions could include:
>
>  * have a file attribute specific to the jrt filesystem "exported" to 
> report whether a file/package is exported
>  * have two subtrees in a module, eg. "all" and "exported"

The behavior you see is intended and as Sundar said, it's not really 
something for the file system to be concerned about. Also remember there 
are qualified exports in the design and it would really complicate 
things for the file system is be concerned with that.

In any case, I think explorers are going to be useful to developers 
because the module graph is essentially a new API to learn. If you are 
only interested in the runtime that the tool is running on then you 
might find ModuleFinder.ofInstalled().findAll() useful.

-Alan