Determine which jar file a class is from

Question

Hi all,

I am not in front of an IDE right now, just looking at the API specs ...

CodeSource src = MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource();
if (src != null) {
  URL jar = src.getLocation();

I want to determine which jar file a class is from, is this the way to do it?

Walter

Answer 1

Yes. It works for all classes except classes loaded by bootstrap classloader. The other way to determine is:

Class klass = String.class;
URL location = klass.getResource('/'+klass.getName().replace('.', '/')+".class");

As notnoop pointed out getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation() method returns the location of the class file itself. For example:

jar:file:/jdk/jre/lib/rt.jar!/java/lang/String.class
file:/projects/classes/pkg/MyClass$1.class

The klass.getResource() method returns the location of the jar file or CLASSPATH

file:/Users/home/java/libs/ejb3-persistence-1.0.2.GA.jar
file:/projects/classes

Answer 2

Checkout the LiveInjector.findPathJar() from Lombok Patcher LiveInjector.java. Note that it special cases where the file doesn't actually live in a jar, and you might want to change that.

/**
 * If the provided class has been loaded from a jar file that is on the local file system, will find the absolute path to that jar file.
 * 
 * @param context The jar file that contained the class file that represents this class will be found. Specify {@code null} to let {@code LiveInjector}
 *                find its own jar.
 * @throws IllegalStateException If the specified class was loaded from a directory or in some other way (such as via HTTP, from a database, or some
 *                               other custom classloading device).
 */
public static String findPathJar(Class<?> context) throws IllegalStateException {
    if (context == null) context = LiveInjector.class;
    String rawName = context.getName();
    String classFileName;
    /* rawName is something like package.name.ContainingClass$ClassName. We need to turn this into ContainingClass$ClassName.class. */ {
        int idx = rawName.lastIndexOf('.');
        classFileName = (idx == -1 ? rawName : rawName.substring(idx+1)) + ".class";
    }

    String uri = context.getResource(classFileName).toString();
    if (uri.startsWith("file:")) throw new IllegalStateException("This class has been loaded from a directory and not from a jar file.");
    if (!uri.startsWith("jar:file:")) {
        int idx = uri.indexOf(':');
        String protocol = idx == -1 ? "(unknown)" : uri.substring(0, idx);
        throw new IllegalStateException("This class has been loaded remotely via the " + protocol +
                " protocol. Only loading from a jar on the local file system is supported.");
    }

    int idx = uri.indexOf('!');
    //As far as I know, the if statement below can't ever trigger, so it's more of a sanity check thing.
    if (idx == -1) throw new IllegalStateException("You appear to have loaded this class from a local jar file, but I can't make sense of the URL!");

    try {
        String fileName = URLDecoder.decode(uri.substring("jar:file:".length(), idx), Charset.defaultCharset().name());
        return new File(fileName).getAbsolutePath();
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new InternalError("default charset doesn't exist. Your VM is borked.");
    }
}