How do you programatically get access to the names and contents of all variables in the current variable scope ?
(attributes and local variables in the current method)

I am usually mostly interested in Strings and the primitive datatype
int , but any objects toString() representation might also be of interest.

What I would like to do, is to *avoid* manually concatenating here and there in
the code like the ugly code example below, and being able to let
java itself figure out what attributes and local variables that currently exist in the
method with the code.

As an example, I would like to be able to replace hardcoded code like this:

			

			try {
			

			// ... some code...
			

			}
			

			catch(myException e) {
			

			String s = "An exception occurred in myClass.myMethod, when the
			

			attributes and local variables had the following values: ";
			

			s += " myStringAttribute = " + myStringAttribute ;
			

			s += ", myIntAttribute = " + myIntAttribute;
			

			s += ", myLocalString = " + myLocalString;
			

			s += ", myLocalInt = " + myLocalInt;
			

			writeToLogfile(s);
			

			}
			

		

			

			try {
			

			// ... some code...
			

			}
			

			catch(myException e) {
			

			String s = "An exception occurred in myClass.myMethod, when the attributes and local variables had the following values: ";
			

			s += SomeClass.getStringWithAllVariableNamesAndValues(); // Here the requested method is called
			

			writeToLogfile(s);
			

			}