How to get current class name including package name in Java?

There is a class, Class, that can do this:

Class c = Class.forName("MyClass"); // if you want to specify a class
Class c = this.getClass();          // if you want to use the current class

System.out.println("Package: "+c.getPackage()+"\nClass: "+c.getSimpleName()+"\nFull Identifier: "+c.getName());

If c represented the class MyClass in the package mypackage, the above code would print:

Package: mypackage
Class: MyClass
Full Identifier: mypackage.MyClass

You can take this information and modify it for whatever you need, or go check the API for more information.


Use this.getClass().getCanonicalName() to get the full class name.

Note that a package / class name ("a.b.C") is different from the path of the .class files (a/b/C.class), and that using the package name / class name to derive a path is typically bad practice. Sets of class files / packages can be in multiple different class paths, which can be directories or jar files.