[Soot-list] How to get signatures from a class that is at resolving level HIERARCHY

[Eric Bodden]

> I'm of course not sure of this statement, but isn't what I'm trying to do
> perfectly reasonable?  In essence, I'm trying to load a class that hasn't
> been loaded, and bring it up to signature level.  Clearly, other classes
> have been loaded in the system via some mechanism which produces the same
> result I need.  What's confusing to me is why my particular use case should
> fail.  In particular, why Soot tries to load signature information when
> bringing the class up to hierarchy.  Given this is the code path that other
> classes are brought into the system, I don't quite understand what is
> different about this particular case that causes it to fail.

I agree that this is harder than it should be. I just looked into
this. Soot uses a flag "doneResolving" in the Scene that usually
prevents you from resolving classes after the initial resolving cycle
has finished. I am not quite sure why this restriction was introduced.
I assume there once was a reason but it may have been forgotten.

Anyway, I have not introduced a method Scene.forceResolve, which you
can call like this:

SootClass c = Scene.v().forceResolve("java.util.HashSet", SootClass.BODIES);

This method causes Soot to ignore the status of the flag. It appears
to work for me.

Eric