How to send a stacktrace to log4j?

Question

Say you catch an exception and get the following on the standard output (like, say, the console) if you do a e.printStackTrace() :

java.io.FileNotFo         


        

Answer 1

You can also get stack trace as string via ExceptionUtils.getStackTrace.

See: ExceptionUtils.java

I use it only for log.debug, to keep log.error simple.

Answer 2

This answer may be not related to the question asked but related to title of the question.

public class ThrowableTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Throwable createdBy = new Throwable("Created at main()");
        ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(os);
        createdBy.printStackTrace(pw);
        try {
            pw.close();
            os.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        logger.debug(os.toString());
    }
}

OR

public static String getStackTrace (Throwable t)
{
    StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
    PrintWriter  printWriter  = new PrintWriter(stringWriter);
    t.printStackTrace(printWriter);
    printWriter.close();    //surprise no IO exception here
    try {
        stringWriter.close();
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
    }
    return stringWriter.toString();
}

OR

StackTraceElement[] stackTraceElements = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
for(StackTraceElement stackTrace: stackTraceElements){
    logger.debug(stackTrace.getClassName()+ "  "+ stackTrace.getMethodName()+" "+stackTrace.getLineNumber());
}

Answer 3

You can use bellow code:

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;

public class LogWriterUtility {
    Logger log;

    public LogWriterUtility(Class<?> clazz) {
        log = LogManager.getLogger(clazz);
    }

public void errorWithAnalysis( Exception exception) {

        String message="No Message on error";
        StackTraceElement[] stackTrace = exception.getStackTrace();
        if(stackTrace!=null && stackTrace.length>0) {
            message="";
            for (StackTraceElement e : stackTrace) {
                message += "\n" + e.toString();
            }
        }
        log.error(message);


    }

}

Here you can just call : LogWriterUtility.errorWithAnalysis( YOUR_EXCEPTION_INSTANCE);

It will print stackTrace into your log.

Answer 4

You pass the exception directly to the logger, e.g.

try {
   ...
} catch (Exception e) {
    log.error( "failed!", e );
}

It's up to log4j to render the stack trace.

Answer 5

In Log4j 2, you can use Logger.catching() to log a stacktrace from an exception that was caught.

    try {
        String msg = messages[messages.length];
        logger.error("An exception should have been thrown");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        logger.catching(ex);
    }