Quick access to caller information

Question

I am working on an aspect, an aspect that needs to know where it is called from. I'm currently using

new Throwable().getStackTrace();

to access this information, but each aspect takes several hundred microseconds.

I looked at the SecurityManager, but it looks like I was able to get the class name.

Are there any other alternatives that I missed?

Update

JMH test results mentioned in my comment on @apangin answer:

Benchmark                       Mode  Cnt      Score    Error  Units
MyBenchmark.javalangaccess13i   avgt  100   2025.865 ±  8.133  ns/op
MyBenchmark.javalangaccess2i    avgt  100   2648.598 ± 24.369  ns/op  
MyBenchmark.throwable1          avgt  100  12706.978 ± 84.651  ns/op

Checkpoint Code:

@Benchmark
public StackTraceElement[] throwable1() {
    return new Throwable().getStackTrace();
}

@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
@Benchmark
public static StackTraceElement javalangaccess2i() {
    Exception e = new Exception();
    return sun.misc.SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().getStackTraceElement(e, 2);
}

@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
@Benchmark
public static StackTraceElement javalangaccess13i() {
    Exception e = new Exception();
    return sun.misc.SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().getStackTraceElement(e, 13);
}

Tests are performed under Windows 10, JDK 1.8.0_112 on the Dell XPS13 9343 (i5-5200U at 2.2 GHz)

Answer 1

Unfortunately, Throwable.getStackTrace()it seems the only viable option to get the caller frame in pure Java 8.

JDK .
API sun.misc.SharedSecrets.

public static StackTraceElement getCaller() {
    Exception e = new Exception();
    return sun.misc.SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().getStackTraceElement(e, 2);
}

2 - .

JDK 8, API JDK 9. , Java 9 Stack -Walking API. Java 9.

public static StackWalker.StackFrame getCaller() {
    return StackWalker.getInstance(Collections.emptySet(), 3)
            .walk(s -> s.skip(2).findFirst())
            .orElse(null);
}

, Java, - JVMTI GetStackTrace. , .

Answer 2

AspectJ. , , AspectJ, thisEnclosingJoinPointStaticPart.getSignature() pointcut call():

:

package de.scrum_master.app;

public class Application {
    private static final long NUM_LOOPS = 1000 * 1000;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application application = new Application();

        long startTime = System.nanoTime();
        for (long i = 0; i < NUM_LOOPS; i++)
            application.doSomething();
        System.out.printf(
            "%-40s  |  %8.3f ms%n",
            "AspectJ thisEnclosingJoinPointStaticPart",
            (System.nanoTime() - startTime) / 1.0e6
        );

        startTime = System.nanoTime();
        for (long i = 0; i < NUM_LOOPS; i++)
            application.doSomething2();
        System.out.printf(
            "%-40s  |  %8.3f ms%n",
            "Throwable.getStackTrace",
            (System.nanoTime() - startTime) / 1.0e6
        );

        startTime = System.nanoTime();
        for (long i = 0; i < NUM_LOOPS; i++)
            application.doSomething3();
        System.out.printf(
            "%-40s  |  %8.3f ms%n",
            "SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess",
            (System.nanoTime() - startTime) / 1.0e6
        );
    }

    public void doSomething() {}
    public void doSomething2() {}
    public void doSomething3() {}
}

:

package de.scrum_master.aspect;

import de.scrum_master.app.Application;
import sun.misc.SharedSecrets;

public aspect MyAspect {
    before() : call(* Application.doSomething()) {
        Object o = thisEnclosingJoinPointStaticPart.getSignature();
        //System.out.println(o);
    }

    before() : call(* Application.doSomething2()) {
        Object o = new Throwable().getStackTrace()[1];
        //System.out.println(o);
    }

    before() : call(* Application.doSomething3()) {
        Object o = SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess().getStackTraceElement(new Throwable(), 1);
        //System.out.println(o);
    }
}

:

AspectJ thisEnclosingJoinPointStaticPart  |     7,246 ms
Throwable.getStackTrace                   |  1852,895 ms
SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess           |  1043,050 ms

, AspectJ 140 , .

, , :

void de.scrum_master.app.Application.main(String[])
de.scrum_master.app.Application.main(Application.java:16)
de.scrum_master.app.Application.main(Application.java:21)

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