I have a bunch of classes that I have already loaded and already done newInstance() on the classes. I would like to reuse these classes without needing to do a newInstance() again and also reuse their current states. Is there a method to replace the use of newInstance() so that I can reuse already instantiated classes without recreating them (thus losing all the states). How should I go about it ?
List<Class> classes = null;
private void parseCP(File loadPath) {
try {
// Convert loading path to a URL
URL url = loadPath.toURI().toURL();
URL[] urls = new URL[]{url};
// Create a new class loader with the directory
ClassLoader cl = new URLClassLoader(urls);
classes = getClassesFromFolder(loadPath.getPath(), cl);
System.out.println("Classes discovered: " + classes.size());
for (Class i : classes) {
System.out.println("Looking into class: " + i.getName());
Object obj = i.newInstance();
// Call load() to get HttpFunctions to register their main and sub functions.
Method loadMethod = i.getMethod("load", null);
Object loadRes = loadMethod.invoke(obj, null);
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException | IOException | NoSuchMethodException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public Object invoke(String classname, String method, Object args) {
Object res = null;
try {
for (Class i : classes) {
if (i.getName().equals(classname)) {
Object obj = i.newInstance(); //<--- How do I NOT create newInstance but reuse them ?
Class[] cargs = new Class[1];
cargs[0] = Object.class;
Method loadMethod;
if (args != null) {
loadMethod = i.getMethod(method, cargs);
} else {
loadMethod = i.getMethod(method, null);
}
if (loadMethod != null) {
if (args == null) {
res = loadMethod.invoke(obj);
} else {
res = loadMethod.invoke(obj, args);
}
}
}
}
} catch (InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException | NoSuchMethodException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return res;
}
Note: I have a previous post regarding classloading but the problems behind these 2 posts are not the same.