How to store printStackTrace into a string

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:

Guava makes this easy with Throwables.getStackTraceAsString(Throwable):

Exception e = ...
String stackTrace = Throwables.getStackTraceAsString(e);

Internally, this does what @Zach L suggests.

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