How to store printStackTrace into a string

Question

How can I get the e.printStackTrace() and store it into a String variable? I want to use the string generated by e.printStackTrace() later in my program.

I'm still new to Java so I'm not too familiar with StringWriter that I think will be the solution. Or if you have any other ideas please let me know. Thanks

Answer 1

Something along the lines of

StringWriter errors = new StringWriter();
ex.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(errors));
return errors.toString();

Ought to be what you need.

Relevant documentation:

• StringWriter
• PrintWriter
• Throwable