Hi, I believe this discussion belongs to core-libs-dev list better. cc'd.
- Kris On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if this belongs to this list, but if it does not, > please point me to where it does. I think that it would be nice if > StackTraceElement which currently contains: > > boolean equals(Object obj) > String getClassName() > String getFileName() > int getLineNumber() > String getMethodName() > int hashCode() > boolean isNativeMethod() > String toString() > > It would be more useful for it to also contain: > > Class<?> getClass() > > The reason I am asking, is because I have an application where I > would like to find the enclosing class from where the exception is > thrown not the superclass, but I cannot deduce that from the class > name. If STE contained the above method, I could do: > > Class<?> c = ste.getClass(); > while (c.getEnclosingClass() != null) { > c = c.getEnclosingClass(); > } > return c.getName(); > > to find the class I want, and getClassName() could be just a wrapper: > > String getClassName() { > return getClass().getName(); > } > > Is there any reason to store the name instead of the Class<?>? Is it > possible to fix this in a future version of the jdk? > > thanks > > christos >
