How to get the stackTrace from an exception without printStackTrace?

Question

Is it possible to get the whole trace from an exception without using printStackTrace()?. One of the reasons it's because I use CheckStyle and I'm getting an ugly message. It's not enough just to call toString(). I want to get the complete message, because I needed to send me by email.

Currently, I'm doing

 StringWriter e = new StringWriter();
 exception.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(e));

--Avoid tracing with printStackTrace(), use log4j instead.

Otherwise, I could disable CheckStyle there.

Answer 1

If you want to get error details try Apache Commons Lang api

There is a class ExceptionUtils . You can use getFullStackTrace

Answer 2

Have you tried?:

Throwable thr = e.getStackTrace();
StackTraceElement[] lines = thr.getStackTrace();

And working from there. Also, take a look at the javadocs Oli linked above

Answer 3

You can get the stack trace from the current thread, check this :

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()

Answer 4

Try this, you will be able to print stack trace with no check style error.

import org.apache.commons.lang.exception.ExceptionUtils;

String errorMessage = ExceptionUtils.getFullStackTrace(exception);  
logger.debug(errorMessage);