It is a very old relic from when logging the exception just gave you the message. It can should be replaced at some point.
.. Owen On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:17 PM, dam6923 . <dam6...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone please explain what the value of > org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils#stringifyException is? How is this > better than just allowing the logging framework to format the > exception information? > > LOG.warn("show function: {}", stringifyException(e)); > > v.s. > > LOG.warn("show function: ", e); > > Thanks! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >