gcc/libjava/classpath/java/rmi/server/RMIClassLoader.java

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package java.rmi.server;

import gnu.classpath.ServiceFactory;
import gnu.classpath.SystemProperties;
import gnu.java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoaderImpl;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * This class provides a set of public static utility methods for supporting
 * network-based class loading in RMI. These methods are called by RMI's
 * internal marshal streams to implement the dynamic class loading of types for
 * RMI parameters and return values.
 */
public class RMIClassLoader
{
  /**
   * This class isn't intended to be instantiated.
   */
  private RMIClassLoader() {}

  /**
   * @deprecated
   */
  public static Class loadClass(String name)
    throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
    return loadClass("", name);
  }

  public static Class loadClass(String codebase, String name)
    throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance(); 
    return spi.loadClass(codebase, name, null);
  }

  public static Class loadClass(String codebase, String name,
                                ClassLoader defaultLoader)
    throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance(); 
    return spi.loadClass(codebase, name, defaultLoader);
  }

  public static Class loadProxyClass (String codeBase, String[] interfaces,
                                      ClassLoader defaultLoader)
    throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance();
    return spi.loadProxyClass(codeBase, interfaces, defaultLoader);
  }

  /**
   * Loads a class from <code>codeBase</code>.
   *
   * This method delegates to
   * {@link RMIClassLoaderSpi#loadClass(String, String, ClassLoader)} and
   * passes <code>codeBase.toString()</code> as first argument,
   * <code>name</code> as second argument and <code>null</code> as third
   * argument.
   *
   * @param codeBase the code base from which to load the class
   * @param name the name of the class
   *
   * @return the loaded class
   *
   * @throws MalformedURLException if the URL is not well formed
   * @throws ClassNotFoundException if the requested class cannot be found
   */
  public static Class loadClass(URL codeBase, String name)
    throws MalformedURLException, ClassNotFoundException
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance(); 
    return spi.loadClass(codeBase.toString(), name, null);
  }

  /**
   * Gets a classloader for the given codebase and with the current
   * context classloader as parent.
   * 
   * @param codebase
   * 
   * @return a classloader for the given codebase
   * 
   * @throws MalformedURLException if the codebase contains a malformed URL
   */
  public static ClassLoader getClassLoader(String codebase) 
    throws MalformedURLException
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance(); 
    return spi.getClassLoader(codebase);
  }
 
  /**
   * Returns a string representation of the network location where a remote
   * endpoint can get the class-definition of the given class.
   *
   * @param cl
   *
   * @return a space seperated list of URLs where the class-definition
   * of cl may be found
   */
  public static String getClassAnnotation(Class cl)
  {
    RMIClassLoaderSpi spi = getProviderInstance();
    if (spi == null)
      spi = getDefaultProviderInstance(); 
    return spi.getClassAnnotation(cl);
  }

  /**
   * @deprecated
   */
  public static Object getSecurityContext (ClassLoader loader)
  {
    throw new Error ("Not implemented");
  }

  /**
   * Returns the default service provider for <code>RMIClassLoader</code>.
   *
   * @return the default provider for <code>RMIClassLoader</code>
   */
  public static RMIClassLoaderSpi getDefaultProviderInstance()
  {
    return RMIClassLoaderImpl.getInstance();
  }

  /**
   * Chooses, instantiates and returns a service provider.
   *
   * @return a service provider
   */
  private static RMIClassLoaderSpi getProviderInstance()
  {
    // If the user asked for the default, return it.  We do a special
    // check here because our standard service lookup function does not
    // handle this -- nor should it.
    String prop = SystemProperties.getProperty("java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoaderSpi");
    if ("default".equals(prop))
      return null;
    Iterator it = ServiceFactory.lookupProviders(RMIClassLoaderSpi.class,
                                                 null);
    if (it == null || ! it.hasNext())
      return null;
    // FIXME: the spec says we ought to throw an Error of some kind if
    // the specified provider is not suitable for some reason.  However
    // our service factory simply logs the problem and moves on to the next
    // provider in this situation.
    return (RMIClassLoaderSpi) it.next();
  }
}