Getting local variables from a stack frame on the JVM
Is there any way to get a map or other data structure of the local variables in the current scope in on the JVM without using a debugger? That is, to get the locals of the current stack frame? I know that there are stacktrace objects, but StackTraceElement has no way to get access to any state. It just tells you what method was called where, but not what was in it. erickson Variable names can be included in class files to aid debuggers, but javac doesn't do it by default. It requires the -g:vars option. If it's present, a program could use a byte-code engineering library like ASM to access the