Getting the name of the calling method

[Gilles A.]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get the class.method name of the calling method?

Example
public class A
{
public void m()
{
new B().method();
}
}
public class B
{
public void method()
{
// Here I need to know who called me.
// I need to print "A.m()" in a stream.
}
}

I tought JDK 1.4 was offering that functionnality but I can't find it
anywhere.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance,

Gilles

 

[Manish Hatwalne]

Have a look at this and see if it helps -
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/qow/archive/104/

- Manish

 

[Fred L. Kleinschmidt]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get the class.method name of the calling method?

Example
public class A
{
public void m()
{
new B().method();
}
}
public class B
{
public void method()
{
// Here I need to know who called me.
// I need to print "A.m()" in a stream.
}
}

I tought JDK 1.4 was offering that functionnality but I can't find it
anywhere.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance,

Gilles

See the printStackTrace method of Throwable

 

[Tom McGlynn]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get the class.method name of the calling method?

Example
public class A
{
public void m()
{
new B().method();
}
}
public class B
{
public void method()
{
// Here I need to know who called me.
// I need to print "A.m()" in a stream.
}
}

I tought JDK 1.4 was offering that functionnality but I can't find it
anywhere.

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance,

Gilles

A couple of other posters pointed out the Throwable.printStackTrack method,
but for your purposes Throwable.getStackTrace is probably what you want.
You'd probably have run across it looking at printStackTrace, but just
in case...
Regards,
Tom McGlynn