JVMTI GetModuleByPackageName -- plans for Instrumentation API equivalent?

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi

With the addition of GetModuleByPackageName added to JVMTI ([1], [2]),
are there any plans to add similar functionality to the
Instrumentation API (or somewhere else)?

>From ClassFileTransformer we now get the Module for the class that is
currently being transformed, but a very common scenario when
transforming a class that is being loaded, is the need to get
information about other classes used by that class; classes which
might not have been loaded yet, meaning we need to get the bytes
somehow.

A common approach to this pre-jigsaw, was simply to translate the
classname to a filename and ClassLoader::getResourceAsStream; but with
named modules, this is no longer the case, we now have to know which
Module that class is in in order to get the bytes
(#ClassFilesAsResources, #ResourceEncapsulation etc).

Adding a GetModuleByPackageName equivalent method would go some way to
help with this issue.

Regards

Michael Rasmussen
ZeroTurnaround

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8159145
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-June/023480.html