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package dynaclasstest;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.URI;
import javax.tools.SimpleJavaFileObject;

/**
 *
 * @author dhaval
 */
public class JavaClassObject extends SimpleJavaFileObject{

    /**
    * Byte code created by the compiler will be stored in this
    * ByteArrayOutputStream so that we can later get the
    * byte array out of it
    * and put it in the memory as an instance of our class.
    */
    protected final ByteArrayOutputStream bos =
        new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    /**
    * Registers the compiled class object under URI
    * containing the class full name
    *
    * @param name
    *            Full name of the compiled class
    * @param kind
    *            Kind of the data. It will be CLASS in our case
    */
    public JavaClassObject(String name, Kind kind) {
        super(URI.create("string:///" + name.replace('.', '/')
            + kind.extension), kind);
    }

    /**
    * Will be used by our file manager to get the byte code that
    * can be put into memory to instantiate our class
    *
    * @return compiled byte code
    */
    public byte[] getBytes() {
        return bos.toByteArray();
    }

    /**
    * Will provide the compiler with an output stream that leads
    * to our byte array. This way the compiler will write everything
    * into the byte array that we will instantiate later
    */
    @Override
    public OutputStream openOutputStream() throws IOException {
        return bos;
    }
}