Re: inside static method - get name of class

Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@dslextreme.com> writes:


  I can understand that still sometimes one wants to avoid
  source code redundancy:

  If the class name appears several times within a source file
  and one wants to change it, then one will need to change it
  at several places - possibly missing a place.

  Some IDEs might offer ?refactors? to support this renaming,
  but not everybody uses an IDE. (And those refactors might
  still miss class names contained in string literals.)

  (I use a customized preprocessor, which allows me to change
  the package and the name of a Java class at a single point:
  In the filename and the directory of the source file.
  To change the package and the class name of a class, I only
  need to move or rename its source file within the source
  directory tree.

  My preprocessor automatically adjusts the package and class
  declaration within the source file and defines several macros
  for use inside the file:

      TYPENAME The name of the current class
      HERE The name of the current package
      THIS HERE.TYPENAME

  So, to get the name of the ?current class? as a string
  literal, I can use ?"TYPENAME"?.)