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Newbie question: How do you modify class members?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/jasonperrone">Jason Perrone</a> in <i>Javassist Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/596347#596347">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Ok, I understand how to modify a class. I've obtained my CtClass from the ClassPool and I added a new member.  Great. What I don't understand is how to replace the old version of this class in this ClassPool with the new version.  This may be a basic mis-understanding of the JVM on my part.  My understanding is that once you load a class, whether from a file or a class you constructed in the application, that that's it. It's there and you can't get rid of it.  So, if I have a class called Potato in the ClassPool, and I get Potato:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>CtClass ctClass = cp.get("Potato")</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>And then I add a member to this class. .. ctClass.addField(f);</p><p>I don't understand how to get the changed version of the class into the classpool. After my change above, Potato in the classpool is not modified.  I thought it would be.  But in reading about Javassist, it seems that you have to make a new class from the change by calling toClass on CtClass, but I can't call toClass on the CtClass because a class of that same name already exists in the ClassPool.  Actually, the exact instructions from JavaAssist are:</p><p>     1) Get the class from the classpool</p><p>     2) Modify it</p><p>     3) Either use writeFile(not applicable to me) to call toByteCode to get the new class definition.  Ok, so I call toByteCode and get my new class definition (Potato with the new field). I figured that I then need to call defineClass() on the ClassLoader with the new byteCode but once again, the error that I can't compile the class because a class of the same name already exists. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So, when it comes to modifying a class, are you ever actually modifying the original class that was loaded, or are you just creating a new class that is cloned from the original class and then applying some changes to it?</p></div>
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