lundi 19 novembre 2018

Is it possible (how) to get the name of a method reference at Runtime Java?

This may be unclear so please bare with me. I've been using a lot of method references and lambdas recently, and wanted to know at runtime if i could print to screen the source of the lambda ie its name, simply for debugging reasons. I figured it might be possible using reflection, by calling getClass() within getName(), but I couldn't find a method with which to find the original source reference's name.

I have a functional interface such as:

@FunctionalInterface
public interface FooInterface {
    // function etc etc irrelevant
    public void method();

    public default String getName() {
        // returns the name of the method reference which this is used to define
    }
}

then lets say i wish to test run the interface, and print the source of the functional interface to the screen.

public static void doStuff(FooInterface f) {
    // prints the lambda name that is used to create f
    System.out.println(f.getName());

    // runs the method itself
    f.method();
}

So that if i do this:

doStuff(Foo::aMethodReference);

it should print something like: "aMethodReference" to the screen, that way i can know, at runtime which methods are being run, in what order etc.

I'm quite doubtful that this is possible, considering that lambdas are not-quite-objects, but hey, i figured there could be a workaround. Furthermore, the eclipse debug tool just says its a lambda, without any other information, do lambda's retain any of this information? or is it all lost at Runtime?

Cheers. (I'm using JDK 11 if that makes any difference)





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