How can i get the name of a method

Question

i have a method which is calling another method.
how can this submethod get the name from the main method?
Thanks
Thorsten

Answer 1

There was a post about this a while ago, but I can't find it.
Check out the getStackTrace method of Throwable (not the printStackTrace method). getStackTrace returns a StackTraceElement array. Each StackTraceElement has a getMethodName() method. In the returned array, the StackTraceElement at index 0 is the stack frame that the Throwable was created in, and the element at index 1 is the stack frame that your method was called from.
    public String getCurrentMethodName () {
        StackTraceElement[] st = (new Throwable()).getStackTrace();
        // Index 0 is the stack frame of "getCurrentMethodName"
        // Index 1 is the stack frame of the method that called this.
        // Index 2 is the stack frame of the method that called THAT.
        // Note that st[1] should always exist because this method
        // will always be called from another method (main, at very
        // least).  
        return st[1].getMethodName();
    public void myMethod () {
        System.out.println("The name of this method is " + getCurrentMethodName());
    };Hope that helps. I didn't test it, but it should work.
Jason