reflection - How can I get the name of the defined class in a parent static method in Groovy -

note: found answer suggests java redirect static method call it's own class if it's called on child class guess need find groovy work-around trick or it's not going doable.

here's problem: created abstract generic "launcher" class "public static void main". idea extend , in child class annotate methods this:

@command("show explorere shell") public dir() {     "explorer".execute()     } 

the parent of class has main goes through, reflects @command annotation , if method name matches parameter, executes it.

the problem can't figure out how tell actual, instantiated class within parent's static main method.

i'm pretty sure there trick somewhere--"this" won't work in statics, stack traces don't contain actual class, parent class, , can't find meta-info in class or metaclass objects helps.

currently i've gotten work hard-coding name of child class parent's main this:

public class quickcli {     public static void main(string[] args} {         (new hardcodedchildclassname())."${args[0]}"()     } } 

i cut quite bit out of that, it's general idea. i'd replace

"new hardcodedchildclassname()" 

with work class extends class.

given 2 code snips above, command executed command line as:

groovy hardcodedchildclassname dir 

although i'd prefer not make @command methods static if had to, i'm not convinced make work.

i'm not sure that's possible. in case, it's ugly hack if is. i'd suggest alternative: rather using static main() entry point, make quickcli runnable. groovy automatically create instance , call run() on when launched.

one minor problem here capturing command-line arguments. groovy handles passing them constructor string[] parameter. instantiated class needs constructor capture args, in java, constructors not inherited. fortunately, groovy has inheritconstructors annotation works around this.

here's example of how look:

class quickcli implements runnable {     def args      quickcli(string[] args) {         this.args = args     }      void run() {         "${args[0]}"()     } }   @groovy.transform.inheritconstructors class hardcodedchildclassname extends quickcli {      @command("show explorere shell")     public dir() {         "explorer".execute()         } }