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

This is an old post, but here is my solution :

Thread.currentThread().dumpStack();

More info and more methods there : http://javarevisited.blogspot.fr/2013/04/how-to-get-current-stack-trace-in-java-thread.html

Answer 2

In Java 9 there is a new way:

public static void showTrace() {

  List<StackFrame> frames =
    StackWalker.getInstance( Option.RETAIN_CLASS_REFERENCE )
               .walk( stream  -> stream.collect( Collectors.toList() ) );

  for ( StackFrame stackFrame : frames )
    System.out.println( stackFrame );
}

Answer 3

To string with guava:

Throwables.getStackTraceAsString(new Throwable())

Answer 4

Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();

is available since JDK1.5.

For an older version, you can redirect exception.printStackTrace() to a StringWriter() :

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
new Throwable("").printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
String stackTrace = sw.toString();

Answer 5

I have a utility method that returns a string with the stacktrace:

static String getStackTrace(Throwable t) {
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw, true);
    t.printStackTrace(pw);
    pw.flush();
    sw.flush();
    return sw.toString();
}

And just logit like...

... 
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    logger.config(getStackTrace(e));
}

Answer 6

To get the stack trace of all threads you can either use the jstack utility, JConsole or send a kill -quit signal (on a Posix operating system).

However, if you want to do this programmatically you could try using ThreadMXBean:

ThreadMXBean bean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean();
ThreadInfo[] infos = bean.dumpAllThreads(true, true);

for (ThreadInfo info : infos) {
  StackTraceElement[] elems = info.getStackTrace();
  // Print out elements, etc.
}

As mentioned, if you only want the stack trace of the current thread it's a lot easier - Just use Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();