Abstract over ClassPath and ClassRep

This commit is intended to create the possibility to plug in into
the compiler an alternative classpath representation which would be
possibly more efficient, use less memory etc. Such an implementation
- at least at the beginning - should exist next to the currently
existing one and be possible to turn on using a flag.

Several places in the compiler have a direct dependency on the
classpath implementation. Examples include backend's icode generator
and reader, SymbolLoaders, ClassfileParser. After closer inspection,
one realizes that all those places depend only on a very small subset
of classpath logic: they need to lookup classes from classpath. Hence
there's introduced ClassFileLookup trait that encapsulates that
functionality. The ClassPath extends that trait and an alternative
one also must do it.

There's also added ClassRepresentation - the base trait for ClassRep
(the inner class of ClassPath). Thanks to that the compiler uses
a type which is not directly related to the particular classpath
representation as it was doing until now.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/symtab/SymbolLoaders.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/symtab/SymbolLoaders.scala
index 82c2a4d6ed..f967a37fc7 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/symtab/SymbolLoaders.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/symtab/SymbolLoaders.scala
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package symtab
 
 import java.io.IOException
 import scala.compat.Platform.currentTime
-import scala.tools.nsc.util.{ ClassPath }
+import scala.tools.nsc.util.{ ClassPath, ClassRepresentation }
 import classfile.ClassfileParser
 import scala.reflect.internal.MissingRequirementError
 import scala.reflect.internal.util.Statistics
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ abstract class SymbolLoaders {
 
   /** Initialize toplevel class and module symbols in `owner` from class path representation `classRep`
    */
-  def initializeFromClassPath(owner: Symbol, classRep: ClassPath[AbstractFile]#ClassRep) {
+  def initializeFromClassPath(owner: Symbol, classRep: ClassRepresentation[AbstractFile]) {
     ((classRep.binary, classRep.source) : @unchecked) match {
       case (Some(bin), Some(src))
       if platform.needCompile(bin, src) && !binaryOnly(owner, classRep.name) =>
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ abstract class SymbolLoaders {
        */
       private type SymbolLoadersRefined = SymbolLoaders { val symbolTable: classfileParser.symbolTable.type }
       val loaders = SymbolLoaders.this.asInstanceOf[SymbolLoadersRefined]
-      val classPath = platform.classPath
+      override def classFileLookup: util.ClassFileLookup[AbstractFile] = platform.classPath
     }
 
     protected def description = "class file "+ classfile.toString