getMethodName()

[google]

I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is intended
to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of the error.
In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the name of the
method that invoked the error. How do I get hold of the method name
when running?
See below especially ??????.getMethodName. Am I close?

try {


} catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null,
"explicit error message",
??????.getMethodName() + " ParserConfigurationException - Error!",
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

}

 

[Gordon Beaton]

I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is
intended to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of
the error. In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the
name of the method that invoked the error.

How do I get hold of the method name when running?
[...]

} catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null,
"explicit error message",
??????.getMethodName() + " ParserConfigurationException - Error!",

Read the documentation for java.lang.Throwable. This is what you need:

pce.getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

/gordon

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is intended
to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of the error.
In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the name of the
method that invoked the error. How do I get hold of the method name
when running?

Start with Throwable.getStackTrace(). The rest is apparent from the API
documentation of that method. I am to lazy to look it up at the moment.

/Thomas

 

[google]

Interrogating the getStackTrace only got the failed method in the java
libraries. What I wanted was the failed method in the code that I'd
written. However, the above suggestion did point me in the right
direction. So what I did to get the method was to loop through each of
elements of the stack trace until I found a match on my class. I Then
found
fillInStackTrace that put my Method to the top of the stack so then I
could use the above
pce.getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

Thanks