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Convert an exception to a String with full stack trace

       
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Contributors:
2003 Erik Bengtson - moved replaceAll from Column class to here
2004 Andy Jefferson - moved intArrayToString, booleanArrayToString from SM
2007 Xuan Baldauf - toJVMIDString hex fix
    ...
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;

/**
 * Utilities for String manipulation.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 1.23 $   
 **/
public class StringUtils
{
  /**
   * Convert an exception to a String with full stack trace
   * @param ex the exception
   * @return a String with the full stacktrace error text
   */
  public static String getStringFromStackTrace(Throwable ex)
  {
      if (ex==null)
      {
          return "";
      }
      StringWriter str = new StringWriter();
      PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(str);
      try
      {
          ex.printStackTrace(writer);
          return str.getBuffer().toString();
      }
      finally
      {
          try
          {
              str.close();
              writer.close();
          }
          catch (IOException e)
          {
              //ignore
          }
      }
  }
}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
  








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