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Java StackTraceElement toString() method with example

StackTraceElement Class toString() method: Here, we are going to learn about the toString() method of StackTraceElement Class with its syntax and example.
Submitted by Preeti Jain, on December 24, 2019

StackTraceElement Class toString() method

• toString() method is available in java.lang package.
• toString() method is used to represent stack trace element as a string or in other words, we can say it is string denotation of stack trace element.
• toString() method is a non-static method, it is accessible with the class object only and if we try to access the method with the class name then we will get an error.
• toString() method does not throw an exception at the time of string representation of stack trace element.

Syntax:

    public String toString();

Parameter(s):

• It does not accept any parameter.

Return value:

The return type of this method is String – it denotes string of stack trace element.

Example:

// Java program to demonstrate the example 
// of String toString() method of StackTraceElement 

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class ToString {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.out.println("Native Method :");
        for (int k = 0; k < 2; ++k) {
            // String representation of a thread by using
            // toString() method
            System.out.print(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[k].toString());
        }
    }
}

Output

Native Method :
java.base/java.lang.Thread.getStackTrace(Thread.java:1606)ToString.main(ToString.java:13)