Minimize content of the Java stack trace

Question

I'm looking for an approach that would give me the flexibility to specify what should be printed. For example, I want my stack trace to only have the filename:line_number printed. I don't want the package name and function name.

Answer 1

You can write an own utility method for that:

Given an Throwable e get the list of StackTraceElement

StackTraceElement[] elems = e.getStackTrace();

then loop over the elements and print the information you want, using StackTraceElement.getFileName() and getLineNumber()