Here you can find the source of getExceptionPrintout(Throwable aThrowable)
public static String getExceptionPrintout(Throwable aThrowable)
//package com.java2s; /**// ww w.ja va 2s . c om * Copyright 2011 The ARIES Consortium (http://www.ariesonline.org) and * www.integratedmodelling.org. This file is part of Thinklab. Thinklab is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Thinklab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Thinklab. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.io.PrintWriter; import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; public class Main { /** * Defines a custom format for the stack trace as String. */ public static String getExceptionPrintout(Throwable aThrowable) { //add the class name and any message passed to constructor final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); result.append(aThrowable.toString()); final String NEW_LINE = System.getProperty("line.separator"); result.append(NEW_LINE); //add each element of the stack trace for (StackTraceElement element : aThrowable.getStackTrace()) { result.append(element); result.append(NEW_LINE); } return result.toString(); } public static String getStackTrace(Throwable aThrowable) { final Writer result = new StringWriter(); final PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(result); aThrowable.printStackTrace(printWriter); return result.toString(); } }