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

Question

I need to find the caller of a method. Is it possible using stacktrace or reflection?

Answer 1

Here is a part of the code that I made based in the hints showed in this topic. Hope it helps.

(Feel free to make any suggestions to improve this code, please tell me)

The counter:

public class InstanceCount{
    private static Map instanceMap = new HashMap();
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 the object:

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

    (...)



}