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!
>
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