Can we copy stack trace of Excepion in a string?

[Naresh Agarwal]

Hi

Is there a way to copy the stack trace in a string, which is obtained
via printStackTrace function of Exception object.

Essentially I want to log the stack trace in case of any exception in
a log file.

thanks,
Naresh

[Haakon Nilsen]

Naresh Agarwal wrote:

Is there a way to copy the stack trace in a string, which is obtained
via printStackTrace function of Exception object.

Yes, the Exception object will have a method getStackTrace which gives an
array of StackTraceElements, on which you can use the toString() method.

[Stian]

na******@informatica.com (Naresh Agarwal) wrote in message news:<2b**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hi

Is there a way to copy the stack trace in a string, which is obtained
via printStackTrace function of Exception object.

Essentially I want to log the stack trace in case of any exception in
a log file.

thanks,
Naresh

catch (Exception excep)
{
StringWriter traceWriter = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(traceWriter, false);
excep.printStackTrace(printWriter);
printWriter.close();
String faultMessage = traceWriter.getBuffer().toString();

// do something with faultMessage
}

There are probably more elegant ways to do this, but I think it should work.
Stian

[Nathan Zumwalt]

There are two ways you can do this.

The first is to use the getStackTrace() method, which returns an array
of StackTraceElement. You can loop through that array and and push
the contents into your log. The advantage to this is that you can
just log the parts of the stack trace you are interested in.

The second way is to create a StringWriter class to capture the output
from the Exception using the printStackTrace(PrintWriter) method.
Here is some sample code:

StringWriter sWriter = new StringWriter();
e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sWriter));
System.out.println(sWriter.getBuffer().toString()) ;

-Nathan

na******@informatica.com (Naresh Agarwal) wrote in message news:<2b**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hi

Is there a way to copy the stack trace in a string, which is obtained
via printStackTrace function of Exception object.

Essentially I want to log the stack trace in case of any exception in
a log file.

thanks,
Naresh

[David Hritz]

na******@informatica.com (Naresh Agarwal) wrote in message news:<2b**************************@posting.google. com>...

Hi

Is there a way to copy the stack trace in a string, which is obtained
via printStackTrace function of Exception object.

Essentially I want to log the stack trace in case of any exception in
a log file.

thanks,
Naresh

Naresh:

Yes, this is possible. There is a version of the printStackTrace
method which takes a PrintWriter as an argument. See the following
example:

try {
//something
}
catch (Exception e) {
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
e.printStackTrace(pw);
String myException = sw.toString();
sw.close();
pw.close();
}