Is there a simple way to get the name of the current class I am in?

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I would like to be able to programmatically retrieve the name of the current class I am in. Is there a straightforward way to achieve this?

In passing, if getting the name of the current function is possible, that would be great as well.

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function myFunc()
    print(debug.getinfo(1, "n").name);
end

myFunc()

I suspect the same will work for Class functions — but the name you get will be qualified with the class name (Class.func). Though I’m not sure about this.

(Adapted from Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4021816/in-lua-how-can-you-print-the-name-of-the-current-function-like-the-c99-func)

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@Simeon, thanks so much!

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I had wondered how to do this also… I tried @Simeon’s code in a class function, and got the right name with:

debug.getinfo(2, "n").name

Is there a way to get the name of the instance of the class?

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I’ve tried this solution but the only thing I get is e function name. does it exist a way to obtain also the class name?

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Hi @shrike, when I used a 2 instead of a 1 as above I got the class name.

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Hi @Fred, I’ve tried and using 2 it works, but only with derived class.