Exclusions

Some classes shouldn't be touched — a public API your users call into, a class loaded by name through reflection, or anything else that would break if renamed or rewritten. Exclusions let you list those classes so flowguard leaves them alone.

Adding an exclusion#

Add the class's full name to your exclusion list in the web UI. You can match a single class, or use ** to match everything under a package:

com.example.PublicApi
com.example.api.**

An excluded class skips every protection — clean-up, strings, renaming, control flow, all of it.

Renaming is a special case#

By default, excluded classes also keep their original name, since that's usually the point of excluding them. If you want an excluded class renamed anyway — while everything else about it stays untouched — turn on Rename excluded classes under Renaming.