[Soot-list] Adding a class to scene/hierarchy

[Derek White]

Eric,

forceResolve did the trick.  Thanks for the pointer!

Derek

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Eric Bodden
<bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Hi Derek.
>
> addBasicClass is not going to help you there. This method merely adds
> the class to a list of classes to be loaded when Soot starts up. When
> you call the method, you are probably calling it at a point in time
> where it is already too late.
>
> You could try the following:
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/pipermail/soot-list/2010-September/003305.html
>
> Eric
>
> On 31 March 2011 05:45, Derek White <whitedw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a program that needs to find subclasses of a class that has
>> been encountered while walking the body of a method, even if the
>> subclasses are not loaded into the Soot scene when Soot is loaded
>> initially.  My approach is to use the class loader and class/jar files
>> to find any classes that belong to the same package as the class (in
>> my case it is guaranteed that any subclasses will be in that same
>> package).  Once I have discovered that set of classes, I want to add
>> them to the scene and hierarchy in order to call something like
>> Hierarchy's getSubclassesOf method to find which of those classes in
>> the package are the subclasses I am looking for.
>>
>> If I just try Scene.v().addBasicClass(className) or
>> Scene.v().addBasicClass(className, SootClass.HIERARCHY), className is
>> not listed as a subclass by the active hierarchy's
>> getSubclassesOf(base) even though it should be
>>
>> If I try something like:
>>
>>            Scene.v().tryLoadClass(className, SootClass.HIERARCHY) or
>> Scene.v().tryLoadClass(className, SootClass.BODIES)
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> java.lang.RuntimeException: This operation requires resolving level
>> SIGNATURES but tests.B is at resolving level HIERARCHY
>> If you are extending Soot, try to add the following call before
>> calling soot.Main.main(..):
>> Scene.v().addBasicClass(tests.B,SIGNATURES);
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Derek
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>
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