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# PSI Cookbook
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This page gives recipes for the most common operations for working with the PSI (Program Structure Interface).
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Unlike [Developing Custom Language Plugins](custom_language_support.md), it is about working with the PSI of existing languages (such as Java).
> See also the [](psi_performance.md) section.
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## General
### How do I find a file if I know its name but don't know the path?
[`FilenameIndex.getFilesByName()`](%gh-ic%/platform/indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/FilenameIndex.java)
### How do I find where a particular PSI element is used?
[`ReferencesSearch.search()`](%gh-ic%/platform/indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/searches/ReferencesSearch.java)
### How do I rename a PSI element?
[`RefactoringFactory.createRename()`](%gh-ic%/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/refactoring/RefactoringFactory.java)
### How can I cause the PSI for a virtual file to be rebuilt?
[`FileContentUtil.reparseFiles()`](%gh-ic%/platform/analysis-api/src/com/intellij/util/FileContentUtil.java)
## Java Specific
> If your plugin depends on Java functionality and targets 2019.2 or later, please make sure to follow the steps from this [blog post](https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2019/06/java-functionality-extracted-as-a-plugin/).
> Also consider using [UAST](uast.md) if your plugin supports other JVM languages.
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### How do I find all inheritors of a class?
[`ClassInheritorsSearch.search()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/searches/ClassInheritorsSearch.java)
### How do I find a class by qualified name?
[`JavaPsiFacade.findClass()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-psi-api/src/com/intellij/psi/JavaPsiFacade.java)
### How do I find a class by short name?
[`PsiShortNamesCache.getClassesByName()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/PsiShortNamesCache.java)
### How do I find a superclass of a Java class?
[`PsiClass.getSuperClass()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-psi-api/src/com/intellij/psi/PsiClass.java)
### How do I get a reference to the containing package of a Java class?
```java
PsiJavaFile javaFile = (PsiJavaFile)psiClass.getContainingFile();
PsiPackage psiPackage = JavaPsiFacade.getInstance(project)
.findPackage(javaFile.getPackageName());
```
or
[`PsiUtil.getPackageName()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-psi-api/src/com/intellij/psi/util/PsiUtil.java)
### How do I find the methods overriding a specific method?
[`OverridingMethodsSearch.search()`](%gh-ic%/java/java-indexing-api/src/com/intellij/psi/search/searches/OverridingMethodsSearch.java)
### How do I check the presence of a JVM library?
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Use dedicated (and heavily cached) methods from [`JavaLibraryUtil`](%gh-ic-master%/java/openapi/src/com/intellij/java/library/JavaLibraryUtil.java):
- `hasLibraryClass()` to check presence via known library class FQN
- `hasLibraryJar()` using Maven coordinates (for example, `io.micronaut:micronaut-core`).