StackTraceElement question

[David Holmes]

> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Christos Zoulas<christos at zoulas.com>  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();

Can't you just do Class.forName(getClassName()) and then find the 
enclosing class?

David
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>> 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
>>