How to get call hierarchy in java

Question

I have three classes named FirstClass,SecondClass and ThirdClass. Here follows the source of three classes:

FirstClass.java

public class FirstClass {
    public void firstMethod(){
        SecondClass secondClass = new SecondClass();
        secondClass.secondMethod();
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FirstClass firstClass = new FirstClass();
        firstClass.firstMethod();
    }

}

SecondClass.java

public class SecondClass {
    public void secondMethod(){
        ThirdClass thirdClass = new ThirdClass();
        thirdClass.thirdMethod();
    }

}

ThirdClass.java

public class ThirdClass {
    public void thirdMethod(){
        System.out.println("Here i need to print where the call comes from,(call hierarchy) Is it possible?");
    }
}

On the final method(here it is ThirdClass.thirdMethod()) i need to print where the method call comes from (I mean the call hierarchy). So what i need to write in thirdMethod() for that

Answer 1

See the documentation for Thread.

In particular, Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace() retrieves information about the trace, and Thread.dumpStack() prints the current stack trace.

There's no need for weird hacks with Exception or anything.