Java Throwable to String getStackTrace(final Throwable exception)

Description

Returns the exception trace in the form of string.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
exception	The exception to convert as a string.

Return

A non-null string but possibly empty.

Declaration

public static String getStackTrace(final Throwable exception) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 IBM Corporation.                                         *
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials            *
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0       *
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at                    *
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 *******************************************************************************/

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

public class Main {
    /**/*from w ww  .  java 2s  .c  o  m*/
     * Returns the exception trace in the form of string. If the exception transmitted as a cause object exception non-null, 
     * this will be taken as the source for the string extraction.
     * 
     * @param exception The exception to convert as a string.
     * @return A non-null string but possibly empty.
     */
    public static String getStackTrace(final Throwable exception) {
        final StringWriter strWriter = new StringWriter();
        if (exception.getCause() == null) {
            exception.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(strWriter, true));
        } else {
            exception.getCause().printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(strWriter, true));
        }
        strWriter.flush();
        return strWriter.toString();
    }
}

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