[higgins-dev] Tracing your method names

["Jim Sermersheim" <jimse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

While refactoring DigitalSubject to Node, I've seen a lot of people tracing out their method's names for one reason or another.  Hard-coding this as a string makes it a bit of a pain to rename your methods.

One thing I've seen is people doing this:

throw new SomeException("MyClass:myMethod(String) error of some sort");

This is not needed as the caller can do: catch (SomeException e) { e.printStackTrace() }

Other places, I've seen log.trace("MyClass:myMethod(String)");

If there's not already a way to do this with log4j, please do something like this instead:

log.trace(new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName()); or if you need the classname included:

log.trace(this.getClass().getName() + "." + new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName());

Thanks,

Jim