Class Throwables

Method Details

• appendStackTraceInCurentThreadToThrowable

  public static void appendStackTraceInCurentThreadToThrowable(Throwable t, String methodToStartFrom)

  Appends the stack trace of the current thread to the one in the given Throwable.

  Parameters:

  t - the given Throwable.

  methodToStartFrom - the name of the method used as the starting point of the current thread's stack trace.

• removeFestRelatedElementsFromStackTrace

  public static void removeFestRelatedElementsFromStackTrace(Throwable throwable)

  Removes the FEST-related elements from the Throwable stack trace that have little value for end user. Therefore, instead of seeing this:

   org.junit.ComparisonFailure: expected:<'[Ronaldo]'> but was:<'[Messi]'>
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:501)
     at org.fest.assertions.error.ConstructorInvoker.newInstance(ConstructorInvoker.java:34)
     at org.fest.assertions.error.ShouldBeEqual.newComparisonFailure(ShouldBeEqual.java:111)
     at org.fest.assertions.error.ShouldBeEqual.comparisonFailure(ShouldBeEqual.java:103)
     at org.fest.assertions.error.ShouldBeEqual.newAssertionError(ShouldBeEqual.java:81)
     at org.fest.assertions.internal.Failures.failure(Failures.java:76)
     at org.fest.assertions.internal.Objects.assertEqual(Objects.java:116)
     at org.fest.assertions.api.AbstractAssert.isEqualTo(AbstractAssert.java:74)
     at examples.StackTraceFilterExample.main(StackTraceFilterExample.java:13)
   

  We get this:

   org.junit.ComparisonFailure: expected:<'[Ronaldo]'> but was:<'[Messi]'>
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
     at examples.StackTraceFilterExample.main(StackTraceFilterExample.java:20)
   

  Parameters:

  throwable - the Throwable to filter stack trace.