Java – print stack trace to a String

Simple and quick one today - what if we need to print stack trace into a String?

JAVA:

...
catch (Exception e) {
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(sw);
e.printStackTrace(pw);
pw.flush();
String stackTraceString = sw.toString();
//use the stackTraceString as you need...
}
...

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