Copy stack trace from IntelliJ Idea

Question

When the program has stopped at a breakpoint, I want to copy the current stack trace (the call stack) and paste it into a text file.

Unfortunately, the current version of IntelliJ Idea does not provide such functionality in the debugger frames window.

Answer 1

You can use:

1. IDEA 2018.1 where "copy stack" action was finally introduced
2. Export threads action from the frames view context menu
3. Thread dump action from the left debugger toolbar

Answer 2

The solution is to add a special watch (the green + in the Variables window of the debugger), either

new Exception("debug").getStackTrace()

or

org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.join(new Exception("debug").getStackTrace(),"\n")

It is possible to copy (and paste as text) the value of such watch, and this value is the stack trace.

(You should be able to use String.join() in Java 8 or TextUtils.join(delimiter, array) in Android)