1 package org.codehaus.plexus.util;
2
3 /*
4 * Copyright The Codehaus Foundation.
5 *
6 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
9 *
10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11 *
12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
16 * limitations under the License.
17 */
18
19 import java.io.PrintWriter;
20 import java.io.StringWriter;
21
22 /**
23 * Convenience class to handle throwable stacktraces
24 * <p>
25 * Created on 18/06/2003
26 * </p>
27 *
28 * @author <a href="mailto:bert@tuaworks.co.nz">Bert van Brakel</a>
29 * @version $Id: $Id
30 * @since 3.4.0
31 */
32 public class Tracer {
33
34 /**
35 * Constructor
36 */
37 private Tracer() {
38 super();
39 }
40
41 /**
42 * Return the throwable stack trace as a string
43 *
44 * @param t a {@link java.lang.Throwable} object.
45 * @return a {@link java.lang.String} object.
46 */
47 public static String traceToString(Throwable t) {
48 if (t == null) {
49 return null;
50 }
51 StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
52 t.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
53 return sw.toString();
54 }
55 }