I'm a beginner programmer, and am wondering how to work around this issue. The problem I am trying to solve is keeping a tally of static method calls in my program using a java.util.Observer.
Clearly, my original post must have just confused people so I'll leave it more open-ended: can anyone suggest a way to keep a static method count on a class that extends Observable?
Thanks for looking
Thanks for the response. It was helpful. I solved this by adding a static method to my class which extended Observer, so that it has two update methods:
public static void update(Method method)
{
//update count here
}
@Override
public void update(Observable observable, Object obj) {
//override code to handle observable's call to update
}
Whenever I ran into a static method that I needed to keep a count of, I called MyClass.update()
and passed a reference to the calling Method using Reflection API's getEnclosingMethod()
.
ex:
MyObserver.update(new Object(){}.getClass().getEnclosingMethod());
Seems to work ok.