How To Get the Name of the Current Procedure/Function in Delphi (As a String)

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Published on 2010-05-12T09:59:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 10:04 UTC
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Is it possible to obtain the name of the current procedure/function as a string, within a procedure/function? I suppose there would be some "macro" that is expanded at compile-time.

My scenario is this: I have a lot of procedures that are given a record and they all need to start by checking the validity of the record, and so they pass the record to a "validator procedure". The validator procedure raises an exception if the record is invalid, and I want the message of the exception to include not the name of the validator procedure, but the name of the function/procedure that called the validator procedure (naturally).

That is, I have

procedure ValidateStruct(const Struct: TMyStruct; const Sender: string);
begin
 if <StructIsInvalid> then
    raise Exception.Create(Sender + ': Structure is invalid.');
end;

and then

procedure SomeProc1(const Struct: TMyStruct);
begin
  ValidateStruct(Struct, 'SomeProc1');
  ...
end;

...

procedure SomeProcN(const Struct: TMyStruct);
begin
  ValidateStruct(Struct, 'SomeProcN');
  ...
end;

It would be somewhat less error-prone if I instead could write something like

procedure SomeProc1(const Struct: TMyStruct);
begin
  ValidateStruct(Struct, {$PROCNAME});
  ...
end;

...

procedure SomeProcN(const Struct: TMyStruct);
begin
  ValidateStruct(Struct, {$PROCNAME});
  ...
end;

and then each time the compiler encounters a {$PROCNAME}, it simply replaces the "macro" with the name of the current function/procedure as a string literal.

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