Java: Is there a way to obtain the bytecode for a class at runtime?

Posted by Adam Paynter on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Adam Paynter
Published on 2010-04-29T12:36:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 12:47 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 265

Filed under:
|
|

In Java, is there a way (at runtime) to obtain the bytecode which defined a particular class?

Put another way, is there a way to obtain the byte[] array passed to ClassLoader.defineClass(String name, byte[] b, int off, int len) when a particular class was loaded? I see that this method is declared final, so creating a custom ClassLoader to intercept class definitions seems out of the question.

In the past, I have used the class's ClassLoader to obtain the bytecode via the getResourceAsStream(String) method, but I would prefer a more canonical solution.

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about java

Related posts about bytecode