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Getting the name of the current executing method

Is there a way in Java for a given method to know its own name? If so, how can it be referenced from inside the method?

Answer 1

You can determine it by analyzing stack trace. But it may carry quite significant performance penalty. In AOP universe you can also have aspect that will determine method name and store it in some kind of context.

In stack trace method you would do something like

Exception e = new Exception();
e.fillInStackTrace();
e.getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

or (as suggested in comment)

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();