Find who's calling the method

Question

Hi, I'd like to somehow find out which CFC is calling my method.

I have a logging CFC which is called by many different CFC's. On this logging CFC there's a need to store which CFC called for the log.

Whilst I could simply pass the CFC name as an argument to my log.cfc, I find this to be a repetitive task, that might not be necessary, if I somehow could find out "who's" calling the method on log.cfc

Is there any programmatic way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

One kludgey way is to throw/catch a custom error and parse the stack trace. Here are some examples

• http://www.bennadel.com/blog/406-Determining-Which-Function-Called-This-Function-Using-ColdFusion-.htm
• http://coldfusion.dzone.com/news/what-function-called-my-functi

Answer 2

I don't know of a method to do directly what you are asking, maybe someone else does.

However, I believe you could get the stack trace and create a function to parse the last method call.

This function on cflib will get you the stack trace.

Answer 3

Already discussed here. Refer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/421280/in-java-how-do-i-find-the-caller-of-a-method-using-stacktrace-or-reflection

best of luck