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/* VMClassLoader.java -- Reference implementation of native interface
   required by ClassLoader
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package java.lang;

import gnu.classpath.SystemProperties;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.security.ProtectionDomain;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.util.zip.ZipFile;

/**
 * java.lang.VMClassLoader is a package-private helper for VMs to implement
 * on behalf of java.lang.ClassLoader.
 *
 * @author John Keiser
 * @author Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org)
 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
 */
final class VMClassLoader
{
  /**
   * Helper to define a class using a string of bytes. This assumes that
   * the security checks have already been performed, if necessary.
   *
   * Implementations of this method are advised to consider the
   * situation where user code modifies the byte array after it has
   * been passed to defineClass.  This can be handled by making a
   * private copy of the array, or arranging to only read any given
   * byte a single time.
   *
   * @param name the name to give the class, or null if unknown
   * @param data the data representing the classfile, in classfile format
   * @param offset the offset into the data where the classfile starts
   * @param len the length of the classfile data in the array
   * @param pd the protection domain
   * @return the class that was defined
   * @throws ClassFormatError if data is not in proper classfile format
   */
  static final native Class defineClass(ClassLoader cl, String name,
                                 byte[] data, int offset, int len,
                                 ProtectionDomain pd)
    throws ClassFormatError;

  /**
   * Helper to resolve all references to other classes from this class.
   *
   * @param c the class to resolve
   */
  static final native void resolveClass(Class c);

  /**
   * Helper to load a class from the bootstrap class loader.
   *
   * @param name the class name to load
   * @param resolve whether to resolve it
   * @return the class, loaded by the bootstrap classloader or null
   * if the class wasn't found. Returning null is equivalent to throwing
   * a ClassNotFoundException (but a possible performance optimization).
   */
  static final native Class loadClass(String name, boolean resolve)
    throws ClassNotFoundException;

  /**
   * Helper to load a resource from the bootstrap class loader.
   *
   * @param name the resource to find
   * @return the URL to the resource
   */
  static URL getResource(String name)
  {
    Enumeration e = getResources(name);
    if (e.hasMoreElements())
      return (URL)e.nextElement();
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Helper to get a list of resources from the bootstrap class loader.
   *
   * @param name the resource to find
   * @return an enumeration of resources
   * @throws IOException if one occurs
   */
  static Enumeration getResources(String name)
  {
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(
      SystemProperties.getProperty("java.boot.class.path", "."),
      File.pathSeparator);
    Vector v = new Vector();
    while (st.hasMoreTokens())
      {
	File file = new File(st.nextToken());
	if (file.isDirectory())
	  {
	    try
	      {
		v.add(new URL("file://"
		  + new File(file, name).getAbsolutePath()));
	      }
	    catch (MalformedURLException e)
	      {
		throw new Error(e);
	      }
	  }
	else if (file.isFile())
	  {
	    ZipFile zip;
	    try
	      {
		zip = new ZipFile(file);
	      }
	    catch (IOException e)
	      {
		continue;
	      }
	    String zname = name.startsWith("/") ? name.substring(1) : name;
	    try
	      {
		if (zip.getEntry(zname) == null)
		    continue;
	      }
	    finally
	      {
		try
		  {
		    zip.close();
		  }
		catch (IOException e)
		  {
		  }
	      }
	    try
	      {
		v.add(new URL("jar:file://"
		  + file.getAbsolutePath() + "!/" + zname));
	      }
	    catch (MalformedURLException e)
	      {
		throw new Error(e);
	      }
	  }
      }
    return v.elements();
  }

  /**
   * Helper to get a package from the bootstrap class loader.  The default
   * implementation of returning null may be adequate, or you may decide
   * that this needs some native help.
   *
   * @param name the name to find
   * @return the named package, if it exists
   */
  static Package getPackage(String name)
  {
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Helper to get all packages from the bootstrap class loader.  The default
   * implementation of returning an empty array may be adequate, or you may
   * decide that this needs some native help.
   *
   * @return all named packages, if any exist
   */
  static Package[] getPackages()
  {
    return new Package[0];
  }

  /**
   * Helper for java.lang.Integer, Byte, etc to get the TYPE class
   * at initialization time. The type code is one of the chars that
   * represents the primitive type as in JNI.
   *
   * <ul>
   * <li>'Z' - boolean</li>
   * <li>'B' - byte</li>
   * <li>'C' - char</li>
   * <li>'D' - double</li>
   * <li>'F' - float</li>
   * <li>'I' - int</li>
   * <li>'J' - long</li>
   * <li>'S' - short</li>
   * <li>'V' - void</li>
   * </ul>
   *
   * @param type the primitive type
   * @return a "bogus" class representing the primitive type
   */
  static final native Class getPrimitiveClass(char type);

  /**
   * The system default for assertion status. This is used for all system
   * classes (those with a null ClassLoader), as well as the initial value for
   * every ClassLoader's default assertion status.
   *
   * XXX - Not implemented yet; this requires native help.
   *
   * @return the system-wide default assertion status
   */
  static final boolean defaultAssertionStatus()
  {
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * The system default for package assertion status. This is used for all
   * ClassLoader's packageAssertionStatus defaults. It must be a map of
   * package names to Boolean.TRUE or Boolean.FALSE, with the unnamed package
   * represented as a null key.
   *
   * XXX - Not implemented yet; this requires native help.
   *
   * @return a (read-only) map for the default packageAssertionStatus
   */
  static final Map packageAssertionStatus()
  {
    return new HashMap();
  }

  /**
   * The system default for class assertion status. This is used for all
   * ClassLoader's classAssertionStatus defaults. It must be a map of
   * class names to Boolean.TRUE or Boolean.FALSE
   *
   * XXX - Not implemented yet; this requires native help.
   *
   * @return a (read-only) map for the default classAssertionStatus
   */
  static final Map classAssertionStatus()
  {
    return new HashMap();
  }

  static ClassLoader getSystemClassLoader()
  {
    return ClassLoader.defaultGetSystemClassLoader();
  }
}