Method trace

[Kalai Selvan]

Hi All,

Is there any way by which I can find from which method a particular method has been called.

    
e.g.
public class A {
    public void methodA() {
        B b = new B();
        b.methodB(); 
    } 
}
 
public class B {
    public void methodB() {
       // Is there any way that i can find out that this method has been
       // called from methodA() of A.
    }
}
 

Thanks in advance.

[Peter Chase]

Get a stack trace from Thread.getStackTrace(). Examine the StackTraceElement objects, to see how you got to where you are.

[Peter Chase]

You don't say why you want this information. If it's just for tracing, diagnostics or maybe assertion, that's fine. If you're thinking of writing logic that depends on who called the method, think again - that's appalling design.

[Arun Kumar]

If you are using Rad as your IDE it has an option by right clicking on the particular method you can select the option Open Call Hierarchy

I think Latest version of Eclipse also supports this option

Even in older versions you can right click a method and search for references that would display all methods that refers to this particular method

[Peter Chase]

Arun, those are things you can do while you're writing the program, but the original poster wants a programmatic approach, that can be done during run-time.