At runtime, find all classes in a Java application that extend a base class

我想做这样的事情：

List<Animal> animals = new ArrayList<Animal>();

for( Class c: list_of_all_classes_available_to_my_app() )
   if (c is Animal)
      animals.add( new c() );

So, I want to look at all of the classes in my application's universe, and when I find one that descends from Animal, I want to create a new object of that type and add it to the list. This allows me to add functionality without having to update a list of things. I can avoid the following:

List<Animal> animals = new ArrayList<Animal>();
animals.add( new Dog() );
animals.add( new Cat() );
animals.add( new Donkey() );
...

With the above approach, I can simply create a new class that extends Animal and it'll get picked up automatically.

UPDATE: 10/16/2008 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time:

This question has generated a lot of great responses -- thank you. From the responses and my research, I've found that what I really want to do is just not possible under Java. There are approaches, such as ddimitrov's ServiceLoader mechanism that can work -- but they are very heavy for what I want, and I believe I simply move the problem from Java code to an external configuration file. Update 5/10/19 (11 years later!) There are now several libraries that can help with this according to @IvanNik's 回答 org.reflections 看起来不错。还 ClassGraph from @Luke Hutchison's 回答 looks interesting. There are several more possibilities in the answers as well.

Another way to state what I want: a static function in my Animal class finds and instantiates all classes that inherit from Animal -- without any further configuration/coding. If I have to configure, I might as well just instantiate them in the Animal class anyway. I understand that because a Java program is just a loose federation of .class files that that's just the way it is.

Interestingly, it seems this is fairly trivial 在c＃中。

看答案

我用 org.reflections：

Reflections reflections = new Reflections("com.mycompany");    
Set<Class<? extends MyInterface>> classes = reflections.getSubTypesOf(MyInterface.class);

另一个例子：

public static void main(String[] args) throws IllegalAccessException, InstantiationException {
    Reflections reflections = new Reflections("java.util");
    Set<Class<? extends List>> classes = reflections.getSubTypesOf(java.util.List.class);
    for (Class<? extends List> aClass : classes) {
        System.out.println(aClass.getName());
        if(aClass == ArrayList.class) {
            List list = aClass.newInstance();
            list.add("test");
            System.out.println(list.getClass().getName() + ": " + list.size());
        }
    }
}

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