methodinvocation

noun

UK /ˈmɛθəd ɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/

US /ˈmɛθəd ɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/

The act of telling a method to run and do its job.

The program crashed during the method invocation because the argument was missing.

SYNONYMS

method call function call procedure call routine invocation

RELATED WORDS

method invocation argument object call stack

OTHER MEANINGS

2. In object-oriented programming, the process of sending a message to an object to trigger one of its methods.

Dynamic method invocation lets the runtime decide which implementation to execute.

3. A syntactic expression in source code that names a method and supplies its arguments.

The compiler parsed the method invocation and checked the parameter types.

4. The runtime event of entering a method's body, often recorded for debugging or profiling.

The profiler logged every method invocation to find the slowest function.