/* *******************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2005 Contributors.
 * All rights reserved. 
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available 
 * under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 
 * which accompanies this distribution and is available at 
 * http://eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 
 *  
 * Contributors: 
 *   Adrian Colyer			Initial implementation
 * ******************************************************************/
package org.aspectj.internal.lang.reflect;

import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.lang.reflect.TypeVariable;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.aspectj.lang.reflect.AjTypeSystem;

Author:colyer Helper class for converting type representations in Strings into java.lang.reflect.Types.
/** * @author colyer * Helper class for converting type representations in Strings into java.lang.reflect.Types. */
public class StringToType { public static Type[] commaSeparatedListToTypeArray(String typeNames, Class classScope) throws ClassNotFoundException { StringTokenizer strTok = new StringTokenizer(typeNames,","); Type[] ret = new Type[strTok.countTokens()]; int index = 0; //outer: while (strTok.hasMoreTokens()) { String typeName = strTok.nextToken().trim(); ret[index++] = stringToType(typeName, classScope); } return ret; } public static Type stringToType(String typeName, Class classScope) throws ClassNotFoundException { try { if (typeName.indexOf("<") == -1) { return AjTypeSystem.getAjType(Class.forName(typeName,false,classScope.getClassLoader())); } else { return makeParameterizedType(typeName,classScope); } } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { // could be a type variable TypeVariable[] tVars = classScope.getTypeParameters(); for (int i = 0; i < tVars.length; i++) { if (tVars[i].getName().equals(typeName)) { return tVars[i]; } } throw new ClassNotFoundException(typeName); } } private static Type makeParameterizedType(String typeName, Class classScope) throws ClassNotFoundException { int paramStart = typeName.indexOf('<'); String baseName = typeName.substring(0, paramStart); final Class baseClass = Class.forName(baseName,false,classScope.getClassLoader()); int paramEnd = typeName.lastIndexOf('>'); String params = typeName.substring(paramStart+1,paramEnd); final Type[] typeParams = commaSeparatedListToTypeArray(params,classScope); return new ParameterizedType() { public Type[] getActualTypeArguments() { return typeParams; } public Type getRawType() { return baseClass; } public Type getOwnerType() { return baseClass.getEnclosingClass(); } }; } }