A standard API has been provided in Java 9 using java.lang.StackWalker class. This class designed to be efficient by allowing lazy access to the stack frames. A couple of other options allow in a stack trace that includes implementation and/or reflection frames, and it can be useful for debugging purposes. For instance, we add SHOW_REFLECT_FRAMES option to StackWalker instance upon creation, so that frames for reflective methods are printed as well.
In the below example, we can able to show reflection frames of StackFrame
Example
import java.lang.StackWalker.Option; import java.lang.StackWalker.StackFrame; import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException; import java.lang.reflect.Method; import java.util.List; import java.util.stream.Collectors; public class ReflectionFrameTest { public static void main(String args[]) throws NoSuchMethodException, SecurityException, IllegalAccessException, IllegalArgumentException, InvocationTargetException { Method test1Method = Test1.class.getDeclaredMethod("test1", (Class[]) null); test1Method.invoke(null, (Object[]) null); } } class Test1 { protected static void test1() { Test2.test2(); } } class Test2 { protected static void test2() { // show reflection methods List<StackFrame> stack = StackWalker.getInstance(Option.SHOW_REFLECT_FRAMES).walk((s) -> s.collect(Collectors.toList())); for(StackFrame frame : stack) { System.out.println(frame.getClassName() + " " + frame.getLineNumber() + " " + frame.getMethodName()); } } }
Output
Test2 22 test2 Test1 16 test1 jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl -2 invoke0 jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl 62 invoke jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl 43 invoke java.lang.reflect.Method 564 invoke ReflectionFrameTest 11 main