Extracting info from java Exception-Trace messages by Regular Expression

In this article, we are going to see how can we extract information from a Exception/Trace messages using Regular Expression. This is regular basis need, spatially when you are analyzing a trace message that you found after a automated test process or unit test.For basic idea about regular expression, see my previous post.

So, when we analysis a trace message, we have to retrieve information from a single trace message from trace stack. I am providing an simple example with an android trace message.

at widget.List.fillFrom(ListView.java:709)

In here, the format of the trace is packageName.className.methodName(FileName:lineNumber)

So, by construction all type of names that are used in java are made of alphabets, so the expression of every name will be [a-zA-Z]+.(any character, single of multiple which are are under rage of a-z, A-Z)
Every line number may have single character to 4/5 character(if we write very long class). So , for line number the expression will be \d+(any digit more than 1 time)

Now, let's look at the message, it begins with at and have a space then the original message.
And in the end it closes with ).
And after every name there is a Character(dot character or braces) .
So if we add those conditions together, we get these
at\s[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+:\d+\)$

Now we group our necessary items that we need to get from the expression. As we want package  name, class name, method name, file name, line number
at\s([a-zA-Z]+).([a-zA-Z]+).([a-zA-Z]+).([a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+):(\d+)\)$

If we do not want package name and class name , we just omit the braces.
at\s[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+.([a-zA-Z]+).([a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+):(\d+)\)$

So, in this way we can get our necessary information from a expression .

Thanks ...:)