System.out超链接？

Question

So if i call

public void throwException throws Exception {     
  throw new Exception("foo") ; 
} 

the output will look something like this:

java.lang.Exception: foo
      at SomeClass.throwException(SomeClass.java:5) 
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
      ... 

now if i click on (SomeClass.java:5) , the IDE jumps to the 5-th line in SomeClass.java.

Is it possible to manually generate those hyperlinks, when using System.out or throwing an Exception? I already tried manipulating an Exception by changing a StackTraceElement, but it seems to work only with valid Java classes.

I'm working on a project, where i have to parse a uniquely defined file and would like to print hyperlinks, which would directly lead to the file, instead of the parse-method where a problem occurred.

Answer 1

Yes. If you have a class named MyClass and you want the IDE to provide a link to line 10 of that class, you can do the following:

System.out.println("(MyClass.java:10)");

Note: This post specifically refers to Eclipse IDE, it might hold true for others as well.

EDIT: I just came across this post, might be worth a look: Eclipse Console - what are the rules that make stack traces clickable?