/*
 *  RapidMiner
 *
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 *
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 *
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 */
package com.rapidminer.tools.plugin;

import com.rapidminer.RapidMiner;

/** A class loader that consecutively tries to load classes from all registered plugins. 
 *  It starts with the system class loader and then tries all plugins in the order as returned
 *  by {@link Plugin#getAllPlugins()}. 
 *  
 *  TODO: implement {@link #getResource(String)}?
 * @author Simon Fischer
 *
 */
public class AllPluginsClassLoader extends ClassLoader {

	public AllPluginsClassLoader() {
		super(RapidMiner.class.getClassLoader());
	}
	
	@Override
	public Class<?extends Object> loadClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
		for (Plugin plugin : Plugin.getAllPlugins()) {
			ClassLoader classLoader = plugin.getClassLoader();
			try {
				return classLoader.loadClass(name);
			} catch (ClassNotFoundException notFound) {
			}
		}		
		ClassLoader contextClassLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
		if (contextClassLoader != null) {
			return contextClassLoader.loadClass(name);
		} else {
			throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
		}
	}
	
	@Override
	protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
		return loadClass(name);
	}
}