Why do you need this?

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[karelpeeters]

Why do you need this?

[christophsturm]

for something like this: https://github.com/christophsturm/asserto/blob/master/src/test/kotlin/com/christophsturm/asserto/AssertoTest.kt#L27

[diesieben07]

The information is definitely in the class file (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se10/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.7.10). However I don't think you can get at it using reflection or similar terms. You'd have to get the raw class file bytes and read it using something like ASM... Not very practical.

[christophsturm]

thanks. i could just read the class file

[Nikky]

try this: val f = File(MyClass::class.java!!.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath())

[evanchooly]

yeah, i was pretty sure that was in there somewhere.

[christophsturm]

oh wow, thanks. i got it working by getting the path from the classfile, and then the filename from the stacktrace element

[christophsturm]

but that is much simpler

[christophsturm]

@Nikky i already do this, this gives me the path of the class file

[christophsturm]

anyway i got it working by taking the name from the stack trace element, so thanks everybody

[fred.deschenes]

you can get it from the .class file as others mentioned above, but you'll have to either parse the .class file yourself or use a library that does it for you (Apache BCEL has that, I'm sure most other bytecode manipulation libs also do). BCEL implementation is here if you're curious : https://github.com/apache/commons-bcel/blob/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/bcel/classfile/ClassParser.java

[christophsturm]

interesting!