[Soot-list] loading class files with Soot in abc

[Prof. Laurie HENDREN]

Exactly what behaviour do we want?

Cheers, Laurie


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On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Oege de Moor wrote:

>
> Hi Pat, thanks!
>
> We also want to load *.java files in the same run,
> just not in the same place. So setting a global option
> may not be the way to go?
>
> -Oege
>
> On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Patrick LAM wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Oege de Moor wrote:
> >
> >>              List/*String*/ this_jar_classes =
> >>                 soot.SourceLocator.v().getClassesUnder(jar);
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the call to getClassesUnder(..) picks up not
> >> only *.class files, but also *.java and *.jimple, which we
> >> do not want: it should pick up *.class and nothing else.
> >
> > Soot's SourceLocator tells it what types of files it should read.  If
> > abc is only supposed to read .class files, then you need
> > soot.SourceLocator.setupClassProviders to handle another case, i.e.
> >
> > 	case Options.src_only_class:
> > 		classProviders.add(new CoffiClassProvider());
> > 		break;
> >
> > and abc should, in its initialization phase, add Options.v().src_prec
> > return Options.src_only_class.
> >
> > Ondrej and Jennifer are trying to make a release this weekend, so I'm not
> > going to commit this change without coordinating with them, but it should
> > be a trivial change.
> >
> > pat
> >
> >
> >
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