http://bugzilla.qos.ch/show_bug.cgi?id=136 Summary: ThrowableInformation should keep the Throwable cause hierarchy intact. Product: logback-classic Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: Other AssignedTo: logback-dev@qos.ch ReportedBy: joern@huxhorn.de Instead of a String representation of the whole Throwable stack trace incl. cause ThrowableInformation should instead look like this: public class ThrowableInformation implements Serializable { String throwableClassName; String message; StackTraceElement[] stackTrace; ThrowableInformation cause; } I omitted get/set and private in this example. StackTraceElement is perfectly Serializable and did also receive a public c'tor in Java 5 so I guess that the current ThrowableInformation is more or less a relict of log4j which had to stay compatible with older Java versions. You could obviously keep the getThrowableStrRep() method for compatibility. This bug is somewhat related to bug #134 because I think that ThrowableInformation should also, as LoggingEvent, be just a dumb data container with no real logic. The logic to extract the relevant StackTraceElements should IMHO be moved either into Logger or into a static factory method of ThrowableInformation. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.qos.ch/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.