Determining Current Call Stack (For Diagnostic Purposes)

Question

For diagnostic purposes I sometimes need to store the call stack that lead to a given state transition (such as granting a lock, committing a transaction, etc.) so that when something goes wrong later I can find out who originally triggered the state transition.

Currently, the only way I am aware of to retrieve the call stack looks like the following code snippet, which I consider terribly ugly:

StackTraceElement[] cause; try {   throw new Exception(); } catch (Exception e) {   cause = e.getStackTrace(); } 

Does somebody know of a better way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I think you can get the same thing with:

StackTraceElement[] cause = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();