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I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is intended
to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of the error.
In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the name of the
method that invoked the error. How do I get hold of the method name
when running?
See below especially ??????.getMethodName. Am I close?

try {


} catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
null,
"explicit error message",
??????.getMethodName() + " ParserConfigurationException - Error!",
JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

}

On 25 Jan 2006 06:34:53 -0800, wrote:
> I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is
> intended to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of
> the error. In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the
> name of the method that invoked the error.

> How do I get hold of the method name when running?

[...]

> } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
>
> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
> null,
> "explicit error message",
> ??????.getMethodName() + " ParserConfigurationException - Error!",


Read the documentation for java.lang.Throwable. This is what you need:

pce.getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

/gordon

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wrote:
> I have the following code in a subroutine of a class which is intended
> to give the user (me) some information as to the nature of the error.
> In addition I want to include in the MessageDialog the name of the
> method that invoked the error. How do I get hold of the method name
> when running?

Start with Throwable.getStackTrace(). The rest is apparent from the API
documentation of that method. I am to lazy to look it up at the moment.

/Thomas

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Interrogating the getStackTrace only got the failed method in the java
libraries. What I wanted was the failed method in the code that I'd
written. However, the above suggestion did point me in the right
direction. So what I did to get the method was to loop through each of
elements of the stack trace until I found a match on my class. I Then
found
fillInStackTrace that put my Method to the top of the stack so then I
could use the above
pce.getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

Thanks