testing for a class having been loaded

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/11/2016 15:51, Alan Snyder wrote:

> :
> As Michael said, the hack is using reflection with setAccessible() to call the protected method ClassLoader::findLoadedClass().
>
> Is there some conceptual or security reason to not provide this functionality in a public API?
It's protected because it's for use in class loader implementations. It 
is final so it could potentially be changed to public but would require 
a lot of consideration before going that road. To be honest, the 
scenario is a bit odd, there must be a saner solution that doesn't 
involve checking if classes are loaded.

-Alan