How do I use stacktrace or reflection to find the caller of a method?

I need to find a caller for a method.Can stacktrace or reflection be used?

#1st floor

This is part of the code that I wrote based on the tips shown in this topic.Hope to help you.

(Please let me know if you have any suggestions to improve this code)

Counter:

public class InstanceCount{
    private static Map<Integer, CounterInstanceLog> instanceMap = new HashMap<Integer, CounterInstanceLog>();
private CounterInstanceLog counterInstanceLog;


    public void count() {
        counterInstanceLog= new counterInstanceLog();
    if(counterInstanceLog.getIdHashCode() != 0){
    try {
        if (instanceMap .containsKey(counterInstanceLog.getIdHashCode())) {
         counterInstanceLog= instanceMap .get(counterInstanceLog.getIdHashCode());
    }

    counterInstanceLog.incrementCounter();

            instanceMap .put(counterInstanceLog.getIdHashCode(), counterInstanceLog);
    }

    (...)
}

And objects:

public class CounterInstanceLog{
    private int idHashCode;
    private StackTraceElement[] arrayStackTraceElements;
    private int instanceCount;
    private String callerClassName;

    private StackTraceElement getProjectClasses(int depth) {
      if(depth< 10){
        getCallerClassName(sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(depth).getName());
        if(getCallerClassName().startsWith("com.yourproject.model")){
            setStackTraceElements(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace());
            setIdHashCode();
        return arrayStackTraceElements[depth];
        }
        //+2 because one new item are added to the stackflow
        return getProjectClasses(profundidade+2);           
      }else{
        return null;
      }
    }

    private void setIdHashCode() {
        if(getNomeClasse() != null){
            this.idHashCode = (getCallerClassName()).hashCode();
        }
    }

    public void incrementaContador() {
    this.instanceCount++;
}

    //getters and setters

    (...)



}

#2nd floor

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

class DBConnection {
    String createdBy = null;

    DBConnection(Throwable whoCreatedMe) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(os);
        whoCreatedMe.printStackTrace(pw);
        try {
            createdBy = os.toString();
            pw.close();
            os.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

public class ThrowableTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Throwable createdBy = new Throwable(
                "Connection created from DBConnectionManager");
        DBConnection conn = new DBConnection(createdBy);
        System.out.println(conn.createdBy);
    }
}

Or

public static interface ICallback<T> { T doOperation(); }


public class TestCallerOfMethod {

    public static <T> T callTwo(final ICallback<T> c){
        // Pass the object created at callee to the caller
        // From the passed object we can get; what is the callee name like below.
        System.out.println(c.getClass().getEnclosingMethod().getName());
        return c.doOperation();
    }

    public static boolean callOne(){
        ICallback callBackInstance = new ICallback(Boolean){
            @Override
            public Boolean doOperation() 
            {
                return true;
            }
        };
        return callTwo(callBackInstance);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
         callOne();
    }
}

#3rd floor

Use this method:

 StackTraceElement[] stacktrace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
 stackTraceElement e = stacktrace[2];//maybe this number needs to be corrected
 System.out.println(e.getMethodName());

The caller of the method sample code is here:

public class TestString {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TestString testString = new TestString();
        testString.doit1();
        testString.doit2();
        testString.doit3();
        testString.doit4();
    }

    public void doit() {
        StackTraceElement[] stacktrace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
        StackTraceElement e = stacktrace[2];//maybe this number needs to be corrected
        System.out.println(e.getMethodName());
    }

    public void doit1() {
        doit();
    }

    public void doit2() {
        doit();
    }

    public void doit3() {
        doit();
    }

    public void doit4() {
        doit();
    }
}

#4th floor

private void parseExceptionContents(
      final Exception exception,
      final OutputStream out)
   {
      final StackTraceElement[] stackTrace = exception.getStackTrace();
      int index = 0;
      for (StackTraceElement element : stackTrace)
      {
         final String exceptionMsg =
              "Exception thrown from " + element.getMethodName()
            + " in class " + element.getClassName() + " [on line number "
            + element.getLineNumber() + " of file " + element.getFileName() + "]";
         try
         {
            out.write((headerLine + newLine).getBytes());
            out.write((headerTitlePortion + index++ + newLine).getBytes() );
            out.write((headerLine + newLine).getBytes());
            out.write((exceptionMsg + newLine + newLine).getBytes());
            out.write(
               ("Exception.toString: " + element.toString() + newLine).getBytes());
         }
         catch (IOException ioEx)
         {
            System.err.println(
                 "IOException encountered while trying to write "
               + "StackTraceElement data to provided OutputStream.\n"
               + ioEx.getMessage() );
         }
      }
   }

#5th floor

You can do this Enhancement Request Alternative solutions were found in the comments.It uses the custom SecurityManager getClassContext() method and appears to be faster than the stack trace method.

The following program tests the speed of various suggested methods (the most interesting thing is the internal class SecurityManagerMethod):

/**
 * Test the speed of various methods for getting the caller class name
 */
public class TestGetCallerClassName {

  /**
   * Abstract class for testing different methods of getting the caller class name
   */
  private static abstract class GetCallerClassNameMethod {
      public abstract String getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth);
      public abstract String getMethodName();
  }

  /**
   * Uses the internal Reflection class
   */
  private static class ReflectionMethod extends GetCallerClassNameMethod {
      public String getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth) {
          return sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(callStackDepth).getName();
      }

      public String getMethodName() {
          return "Reflection";
      }
  }

  /**
   * Get a stack trace from the current thread
   */
  private static class ThreadStackTraceMethod extends GetCallerClassNameMethod {
      public String  getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth) {
          return Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[callStackDepth].getClassName();
      }

      public String getMethodName() {
          return "Current Thread StackTrace";
      }
  }

  /**
   * Get a stack trace from a new Throwable
   */
  private static class ThrowableStackTraceMethod extends GetCallerClassNameMethod {

      public String getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth) {
          return new Throwable().getStackTrace()[callStackDepth].getClassName();
      }

      public String getMethodName() {
          return "Throwable StackTrace";
      }
  }

  /**
   * Use the SecurityManager.getClassContext()
   */
  private static class SecurityManagerMethod extends GetCallerClassNameMethod {
      public String  getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth) {
          return mySecurityManager.getCallerClassName(callStackDepth);
      }

      public String getMethodName() {
          return "SecurityManager";
      }

      /** 
       * A custom security manager that exposes the getClassContext() information
       */
      static class MySecurityManager extends SecurityManager {
          public String getCallerClassName(int callStackDepth) {
              return getClassContext()[callStackDepth].getName();
          }
      }

      private final static MySecurityManager mySecurityManager =
          new MySecurityManager();
  }

  /**
   * Test all four methods
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      testMethod(new ReflectionMethod());
      testMethod(new ThreadStackTraceMethod());
      testMethod(new ThrowableStackTraceMethod());
      testMethod(new SecurityManagerMethod());
  }

  private static void testMethod(GetCallerClassNameMethod method) {
      long startTime = System.nanoTime();
      String className = null;
      for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
          className = method.getCallerClassName(2);
      }
      printElapsedTime(method.getMethodName(), startTime);
  }

  private static void printElapsedTime(String title, long startTime) {
      System.out.println(title + ": " + ((double)(System.nanoTime() - startTime))/1000000 + " ms.");
  }
}

My output example of 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook running Java 1.6.0_17:

Reflection: 10.195 ms.
Current Thread StackTrace: 5886.964 ms.
Throwable StackTrace: 4700.073 ms.
SecurityManager: 1046.804 ms.

Internal reflection is done much faster than others.Getting a stack trace from a newly created Throwable is faster than getting it from the current Thread.Customizing SecurityManager seems to be the fastest way to find caller classes out of the box.

Update Data

Just as lyomi was at In this comment As indicated, by default, the sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass() method is disabled in Java 7 Update 40 and completely removed in Java 8 .In the Java bug database, you can find Of On this issue More information.

Update 2

As zammbi discovered, Oracle Forced to quit sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass() deleted Changes .It is still available (but deprecated) in Java 8.

Update 3

Three years later: update the timing using the current JVM.

> java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
> java TestGetCallerClassName
Reflection: 0.194s.
Current Thread StackTrace: 3.887s.
Throwable StackTrace: 3.173s.
SecurityManager: 0.565s.

Posted by redking on Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:09:37 -0800

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