Question

I’m a beginner programmer, and am wondering how to work around this issue. The problem I am trying to solve is keeping a tally of static method calls in my program using a java.util.Observer.

Clearly, my original post must have just confused people so I’ll leave it more open-ended: can anyone suggest a way to keep a static method count on a class that extends Observable?

Thanks for looking

Answer 1

Thanks for the response. It was helpful. I solved this by adding a static method to my class which extended Observer, so that it has two update methods:

public static void update(Method method)
{
    //update count here
}

@Override
public void update(Observable observable, Object obj) {
            //override code to handle observable's call to update

    }

Whenever I ran into a static method that I needed to keep a count of, I called MyClass.update() and passed a reference to the calling Method using Reflection API’s getEnclosingMethod().

ex:

MyObserver.update(new Object(){}.getClass().getEnclosingMethod());

Seems to work ok.