Printing Exception's stacktrace

[francesco raccuglia]

Hi,

how can I print an exception's stacktrace with a JSFcomponent.

Actually i'm printing the exception message with a

<h:outputText value="#{errorModel.errorMessage}"/>

It is working but i can't format the stacktrace like normally is done in a console.

Thanks in advance

[Tim Holloway]

Actually, there's not a whole lot of good reasons to display a stacktrace on a web page. Users can't read them, can't understand them, and don't like them. Technically-savvy people can obtain all sorts of information about what's inside the webapp, and perhaps then exploit it for evil purposes. You're better off outputting the stacktrace to a logfile. Most loggers, in fact, have a log method that can be passed the exception and the exception's stack trace will then appear in the log.

Frameworks such as Facelets can display stack information - and a whole lot more. Although, again, it's not something you really want users to see, so employ if for development, but intercept and handle the exceptions before going to production.

If, for purely academic reasons, you would like to use JSF to display a stack trace, the easiest method would be do render a datatable with a DataModel that enumerated each of the levels of the stack trace.

[francesco raccuglia]

hi Tim , thanks for the answer.