Java source refactoring of 7000 references

Question

I need to change the signature of a method used all over the codebase.

Specifically, the method void log(String) will take two additional arguments (

Answer 1

If the class and method name are required for "where did this log come from?" type data, then another option is to print out a stack trace in your log method. E.g.

public void log(String text)
{
   StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
   PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true);
   new Throwable.printStackTrace(pw);
   pw.flush();
   sw.flush();
   String stackTraceAsLog = sw.toString();
   //do something with text and stackTraceAsLog
}