Print current caller class

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The following prints the current caller class. Note that in this case, the StackWalker needs to be created with the option RETAIN_CLASS_REFERENCE, so that Class instances are retained in the StackFrame objects. Otherwise an exception would occur.

public class StackWalkerExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FooHelper.foo();
    }

}

class FooHelper {
    protected static void foo() {
        BarHelper.bar();
    }
}

class BarHelper {
    protected static void bar() {
        System.out.println(StackWalker.getInstance(Option.RETAIN_CLASS_REFERENCE).getCallerClass());
    }
}

Output:

class test.FooHelper

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