inspect a thread’s stack

[Pietro Paolini]

Hi all,

I apologise if this is not the right ML for it but  I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for when Googling the problem. I am a bit new to the JDI world.

I would like to inspect the stack-frame of a specific  thread, I came across the StackFrame/ThreadReference classes but I couldn’t find a way examples where their usage is shown
without connecting to the VM somehow, like a debugger would do.

Is it possible to

inspect a thread’s stack “locally”  ? In my mind I could be able to have a function such as :

static void hook(Thread thread) {

thread.wait() // stop that thread

// inspect the frames of that thread doing any needed business with them
}

I’d need this for diagnostic purposes of my application.

Thanks,
Pietro




Pietro Paolini
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