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public static String printStackTraceToString(Throwable aThrowable)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 1998, 2015 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 * which accompanies this distribution.// w w w. ja v a2 s .c o m * The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. * * Contributors: * Oracle - initial API and implementation from Oracle TopLink * dminsky - added countOccurrencesOf(Object, List) API * 08/23/2010-2.2 Michael O'Brien * - 323043: application.xml module ordering may cause weaving not to occur causing an NPE. * warn if expected "_persistence_*_vh" method not found * instead of throwing NPE during deploy validation. ******************************************************************************/ import java.io.Closeable; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.StringWriter; public class Main { /** * Return a String containing the printed stacktrace of an exception. */ public static String printStackTraceToString(Throwable aThrowable) { StringWriter swriter = new StringWriter(); PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(swriter, true); aThrowable.printStackTrace(writer); writer.close(); return swriter.toString(); } /** * Close a closeable object, eating the exception */ public static void close(Closeable c) { try { if (c != null) { c.close(); } } catch (IOException exception) { } } }