feature request: logging a stack trace

[Hein Meling <me...@item.ntnu.no>]

hi.

  sorry if this is not the right place for this kind of request, but i
don't want to subscribe to the developers list.

  anyway, sometimes it may be very useful to log a stack trace, even if
there was no exception, in order to determine from where a method is
being called.  is this idea something that could be interesting to add
to the Logger (or Category) class in Log4j?  That is a method like:
logStackTrace(), or whatever...

  my implementation (residing in a class called Debug) is very rough so,
it needs a bit of cleaning up to fit well into log4j:


  public static void logStackTrace(org.apache.log4j.Logger log)
  {
    try {
      throw new Exception();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      StringWriter swriter = new StringWriter();
      e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(swriter));
      log.debug(swriter.toString());
    }
  }


  comments?

ciao,
- hein

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