/**
 *  Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud.com, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
 * 
 * It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 * 
 */
package com.cloud.utils.exception;

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;

public class ExceptionUtil {
    public static String toString(Throwable th) {
        final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
		writer.append("Exception: " + th.getClass().getName() + "\n");
        writer.append("Message: ");
        writer.append(th.getMessage());
        writer.append("\n  Stack: ");
        th.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
        return writer.toString();
    }
}

/**
 *  Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud.com, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
 * 
 * It is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 * 
 */
package com.cloud.utils.exception;

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;

public class ExceptionUtil {
    public static String toString(Throwable th) {
    	return toString(th, true);
    }
	
    public static String toString(Throwable th, boolean printStack) {
        final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
		writer.append("Exception: " + th.getClass().getName() + "\n");
        writer.append("Message: ");
        writer.append(th.getMessage()).append("\n");
        
        if(printStack) {
	        writer.append("Stack: ");
	        th.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(writer));
        }
        return writer.toString();
    }
}

allow controllable stack dump in ExceptionUtil.java