April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
6h 11m
English
To debug exceptions, we look at the root cause of exception by traversing the stack trace. Prior to Java 9, we all used Thread.getStackTrace() to get StackTraceElement objects in the form of arrays.
StackTraceElement: Each element of StackTraceElement is a single StackFrame, which provides details about classname, method name, filename, and line number where the exception was generated. Except for the first StackFrame, all the other elements represent the method invocation call from the starting point of the application to the point where the exception generated. This is helpful when we want auditing of generated error logs.
Java 9 StackWalker API provides several features such as filtering, asserting, and skipping certain ...