Is there a way to get the name of the caller function within the callee? [duplicate]

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Javascript how do you find the caller function?

I'm experimenting with javascript/jQuery a bit this morning and was trying to capture the caller name of the currently executing function.

So in the below example, the log would show runMe as the caller and showMe as the callee.

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  function showMe() {
    // should log the runMe as the caller and showMe as callee
    console.log('Callee: ',arguments.callee)
    console.log('Caller: ',arguments.caller);
  }

  function runMe() {
    // getting executed as a button is pressed.
    showMe();
  }

  $('a').bind('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    runMe();
  });

});

The above obviously doesn't work, hence my question to you all.

Is there a good way to get the caller in the above example?

please note: I am aware I could get the callee of runMe and pass it into showMe as an argument but this question is aiming towards a solution that does not require the caller to be passed into the function 'manually'.

Are there reasons against doing something like this?

Answer 1

You used to be able to do arguments.caller.name, but this is deprecated in Javascript 1.3.

arguments.callee.caller.name (or just showMe.caller.name) is another way to go. This is non-standard, and not supported in strict mode, but otherwise currently supported in all major browsers (ref).

Answer 2

Try callee.caller like this

 function showMe() {
        // should log the runMe as the caller and showMe as callee
        console.log('Callee: ',arguments.callee.name)
        console.log('Caller: ',arguments.callee.caller.name);
      }