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A collection of utility methods for manipulating exceptions

   
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import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;

/**
 * A collection of utility methods for manipulating exceptions.
 *
 * @author    Simon Brown
 */
public final class ExceptionUtils {

  /**
   * Given a Throwable, this method returns a String representation of the
   * complete stack trace.
   *
   * @param t   the Throwable from which to extract the stack trace
   * @return  a String representation of the stack trace
   */
  public static String getStackTraceAsString(Throwable t) {

    if (t != null) {
      StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
      PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(sw);
      t.printStackTrace(writer);
      return sw.getBuffer().toString();
    } else {
      return "";
    }
  }

}








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