How to get all possible callers of a method in Java - like call hierarchy

Question

Say I have a method m in a class. I'm trying to find all the methods that call m in the whole project. Similar to eclipse's call hierarchy tool, except I need it to output a list/array of Methods. I need it statically so I dont think a stack trace works. Is there any way to implement this, maybe using reflection?

I attached link to an example of Eclipse's call hierarchy tool, finding all the methods that mention the method barking() from the class Dog. (Dog.hungry() and Cat.scratching() call barking()).

Answer 1

The "standard" java reflection will probably not be of any help on this.

I would try using the open source Reflection library.

You can search for a method with via:

Set<Member> usages = reflections.getMethodUsages(Method.class)