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Want to know what method you are currently executing, programmatically?

Posted At : August 14, 2008 6:07 PM |

Posted By : Luis Majano

Related Categories: Coldfusion

I am recently building a simple mock factory for cf7 (unfortunately I can't use coldmock, no cf8 goodness). One hurdle I was missing, is how to know which method I am currently executing in order to make a return look. Well, or good old friend java to the rescue. This is totally undocumented and please tread with care:

stack = CreateObject("java","java.lang.Exception").init().getStackTrace();
//loop over our stacktrace for(x=1;x lte ArrayLen(stack);x=x+1){
if( findnocase( getMetdata(this).path, stack[x] ) ){
foundLine = stack[x];
break;
}
}
//cleanup our line runningFunction = replacenocase(listlast(foundline.getClassName(),"$","func",""));

There you go!! That parses out the inner class name (your method) out of the compiled cf class that coldfusion created for you. I can now do my lookup against it.

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when in doubt, parse it out

# Posted By Josh Highland |

8/14/08 6:17 PM

@Luis, that's pretty cool. Do you know if debugging has to be turned on in the Administrator in order for this to work?

# Posted By Ben Nadel |

8/15/08 1:30 PM

I think mine was off Ben, but I believe it bypasses whether you are in debug mode or not. Because you are getting an exception object, like if you where going to throw an exception.

# Posted By Luis Majano |

8/15/08 1:33 PM

Very cool. Thanks.

# Posted By Ben Nadel |

8/15/08 1:35 PM

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