How to find all classes of a package in Java
To find all classes of a package in Java we need to use the ClassHunter of Burningwave Core library. The ClassHunter is a classpath scan engine that queries iterated classes and returns only the classes that match a chosen criteria, moreover the searches are executed in a multithread context and recursively through folder and supported compressed files (zip, jar, jmod, war and ear) even in nested compressed files. To use the ClassHunter you should simply add the following to your projects dependencies:
To perform a scan it is necessary to create a configuration object of type SearchConfig to which must be (optionally) passed the paths to be scanned and the query criteria represented by the ClassCriteria. If no path will be passed to SearchConfig, the scan will be executed on the paths indicated by the ‘paths.hunters.default-search-config.paths’ property of the burningwave.properties.
The fastest and most optimized way to find all the classes of a package is by iterating the resources accessible through ClassLoader thus avoiding that ClassLoader loads the classes that are outside the scanned paths:
The findBy method loads all classes in the paths of the SearchConfig received as input and then execute the queries of the ClassCriteria. The findBy method also caches data so after the first search it is possible to take advantage of faster searches. In addition to the loadCache method, loading data into the cache can also take place via the findBy method if the latter receives a SearchConfig without ClassCriteria as input.
