Re: How do I search for a constant in a class in a bunch of Jars?

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:57:41 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-28A4B0.10574008102009@news.aioe.org>
In article
<84e97aef-c909-4016-870b-cd02dbb36e09@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
 laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:

I'm using Mac OS X (bash shell) with Java 1.5. I have an enum class
and I think an old version is drifting around in a JAR file somewhere
that contains a field, "MATCH_999". Does anyone know how to search
through the JAR files to find the JAR(s) that may contain this? I
would prefer not to unzip each one.


Using the -verbose option of the `java` command may shed light.
Alternatively, the example below may be modified to search particular
paths. As written, it examines the java.class.path property, but an
errant $CLASSPATH environment variable is another suspect. Searching the
individual JarEntry's InputStream should be a straightforward extension.

<code>
package cli;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

/** @author Ram, Matthews */
public class ShowClassPath {

    public static void main(final String[] args) throws Throwable {
        final String pathSep = File.pathSeparator;
        final String list = System.getProperty("java.class.path");
        for (final String path : list.split(pathSep)) {
            final File f = new java.io.File(path);
            if (f.isDirectory()) {
                ls(f);
            } else if (f.toString().endsWith("jar")) {
                lsJar(f);
            } else {
                System.out.println(f);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void ls(File f) {
        File[] list = f.listFiles();
        for (File file : list) {
            if (file.isDirectory()) {
                ls(file);
            } else {
                System.out.println(file);
            }
        }
    }

    private static void lsJar(File f) {
        try {
            JarFile jar = new JarFile(f);
            Enumeration e = jar.entries();
            while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
                JarEntry je = (JarEntry) e.nextElement();
                System.out.println(je.getName());
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
</code>

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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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