Package com.ibm.wsspi.classloading
Interface ClassTransformer
public interface ClassTransformer
This interface allows a class to be transformed before it is loaded.
It is intended for use by JPA but is defined here to avoid creating
a dependency on any JPA packages.
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionbyte[]
transformClass
(String name, byte[] bytes, CodeSource source, ClassLoader loader) The following method is to be called before a class is defined.
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Method Details
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transformClass
The following method is to be called before a class is defined.- Parameters:
name
- Name of the class being definedbytes
- Byte code as loaded from disksource
- Code source used to define the class.loader
- Classloader to create the class from classByte.- Returns:
- The transformed byte code returned by the persistence provider. If no transformation takes place, the original classBytes is returned. All data of the returned byte[] MUST be used by the classloader to define the POJO entity class. I.e. returnClass = defineClass(name, classBytes, 0, classBytes.length, cs);
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