[BCEL-314] Expose the true class name

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Maciej Kwidziński
• Created: 04/Dec/18 15:26
• Updated: 30/Sep/19 11:45

Description

Natively, in the bytecode, class names look like this:

java/lang/String

You can see it in NoClassDefFoundError, etc.

Bytecode decompilers and other bytecode-engineering libs (like kotlinx-metadata) will use this native format.

For some reason, BCEL explicitly converts it to the dot notation:

Shorten long class names, java/lang/String becomes java.lang.String

I'm not sure how is that shorter, but it definitely makes interoperability harder, ie. if you want to base Java-specific bytecode engineering with BCEL and still reuse Kotlin-specific libraries for Kotlin-specific bytecode.
Could JavaClass expose the real, actual, bytecode-level class name?