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package com.cloudhopper.commons.util;

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import java.io.*;

/**
 * Simple utilities to return the stack trace of an exception as a String.
 * 
 * @author joelauer (twitter: @jjlauer or http://twitter.com/jjlauer)
*/
public final class StackTraceUtil {

  public static String getStackTrace(Throwable aThrowable) {
    final Writer result = new StringWriter();
    final PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(result);
    aThrowable.printStackTrace(printWriter);
    return result.toString();
  }

  /**
  * Defines a custom format for the stack trace as String.
  */
  public static String toStackTraceString(String firstLine, StackTraceElement[] stack)
  {
    //add the class name and any message passed to constructor
    final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(firstLine);
    //result.append(aThrowable.toString());
    final String NEW_LINE = System.getProperty("line.separator");
    result.append(NEW_LINE);

    //add each element of the stack trace
    for (StackTraceElement element : stack ){
      result.append("  at ");
      result.append( element );
      result.append( NEW_LINE );
    }
    return result.toString();
  }
}