[GROOVY-7554] Add method to get printed stack trace in Throwable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.4
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.3
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mauro Molinari
• Created: 21/Aug/15 09:44
• Updated: 02/Nov/22 14:57
• Resolved: 02/Nov/22 14:57

Description

It would be very handy if Groovy JDK provided a method in Throwable to get the printed stack trace as a string.
This would save the user to call the default printStackTrace(PrintWriter) method with a StringWriter and retrieve the result from there.