如果你是为Android开发的，一个更简单的方法是使用这个：

import android.util.Log;

String stackTrace = Log.getStackTraceString(exception); 

格式与getStacktrace相同，例如。

09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：java.lang.NullPointerException09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：在com.temp.ttscancel.MainActivity.onCreate（MainActivity.java:43）09-24 16:09:07.042:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.Activity.performCreate（Activity.java:5248）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate（Instrumentation.java：1110）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity（ActivityThread.java：2162）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity（ActivityThread.java：2257）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.access$800（ActivityThread.java:139）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage（ActivityThread.java:1210）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage（Handler.java:102）09-24 16:09:07.043:I/System.out（4844）：在android.os.Looper.lop（Looper.java：136）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在android.app.ActivityThread.main（ActivityThread.java：5097）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative（本机方法）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke（Method.java：515）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run（ZygoteInit.java:785）09-24 16:09:07.044:I/System.out（4844）：在com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main（ZygoteInit.java:601）

public static String getStackTrace(Throwable t) {
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    t.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
    return sw.toString();
}

对Gala的回答进行了详细分析，其中还将包括例外情况的原因：

private String extrapolateStackTrace(Exception ex) {
    Throwable e = ex;
    String trace = e.toString() + "\n";
    for (StackTraceElement e1 : e.getStackTrace()) {
        trace += "\t at " + e1.toString() + "\n";
    }
    while (e.getCause() != null) {
        e = e.getCause();
        trace += "Cause by: " + e.toString() + "\n";
        for (StackTraceElement e1 : e.getStackTrace()) {
            trace += "\t at " + e1.toString() + "\n";
        }
    }
    return trace;
}

以下代码允许您使用字符串格式获取整个stackTrace，而无需使用log4J或java.util.Logger等API：

catch (Exception e) {
    StackTraceElement[] stack = e.getStackTrace();
    String exception = "";
    for (StackTraceElement s : stack) {
        exception = exception + s.toString() + "\n\t\t";
    }
    System.out.println(exception);
    // then you can send the exception string to a external file.
}

Scala版本

def stackTraceToString(e: Exception): String = {
  import java.io.PrintWriter
  val sw = new StringWriter()
  e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw))
  sw.toString
}

下面是一个可以直接复制到代码中的版本：

import java.io.StringWriter; 
import java.io.PrintWriter;

//Two lines of code to get the exception into a StringWriter
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
new Throwable().printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));

//And to actually print it
logger.info("Current stack trace is:\n" + sw.toString());

或者，在捕捉块中

} catch (Throwable t) {
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    t.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw));
    logger.info("Current stack trace is:\n" + sw.toString());
}