Shorter method for getting the name of the current method dynamically [duplicate]

Question

I'm looking for a way to get the name of the current method without having to create a blank object. Is there a way to do this? This would tidy up our logging code.

Here is what we do now:

new Object() {}.getClass().getEnclosingMethod().getName(

Answer 1

How about Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1]?

Since this enables you to examine higher levels of the stack trace, you could easily wrap this in a helper method (see below). It also gives you the option to get quite a bit more info than just the method name, such as the file name, line number etc.

edit The helper method could look something like this (thanks @Esailija):

public static String getMethodName() {
    return Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
} 

Answer 2

You can also use

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1].getMethodName() 

contains the last method call, but is not shorter that

new Object() {}.getClass().getEnclosingMethod().getName

I am not aware of a sorter way to do it.