How can I get the current stack trace in Java?

Question

How do I get the current stack trace in Java, like how in .NET you can do Environment.StackTrace?

I found Thread.dumpStack() but it is not what I want -

Answer 1

Another solution (only 35 31 characters):

new Exception().printStackTrace();   
new Error().printStackTrace();

Answer 2

Silly me, it's Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();

Answer 3

Tony, as a comment to the accepted answer, has given what seems to be the best answer which actually answers the OP's question:

Arrays.toString(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()).replace( ',', '\n' );

... the OP did NOT ask how to get a String from the stack trace from an Exception. And although I'm a huge fan of Apache Commons, when there is something as simple as the above there is no logical reason to use an outside library.

Answer 4

On android a far easier way is to use this:

import android.util.Log;
String stackTrace = Log.getStackTraceString(exception); 

Answer 5

for (StackTraceElement ste : Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()) {
    System.out.println(ste);
}

Answer 6

Maybe you could try this:

catch(Exception e)
{
    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(writer);
    e.printStackTrace(pw);
    String errorDetail = writer.toString();
}

The string 'errorDetail' contains the stacktrace.