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                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="nmccloud" id="email_nmccloud" href="http://jira.qos.ch/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=nmccloud" style="color:#326ca6;">Kenneth Gendron</a>
     commented on <img src="http://jira.qos.ch/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1027'>LOGBACK-1027</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1027'><strong>Circular Referenced Suppressed Exception Throws StackOverflowError</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><p>I found a possible solution.  Within ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ThrowableProxy, replace the default constructor with the following field, constructors and method:</p>
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<pre class="code-java">  <span class="code-keyword">private</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> <span class="code-keyword">final</span> StackTraceElementProxy[] NO_STACK_TRACE=<span class="code-keyword">new</span> StackTraceElementProxy[0];

  <span class="code-keyword">public</span> ThrowableProxy(Throwable throwable) {
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>(throwable, <span class="code-keyword">null</span>, <span class="code-keyword">false</span>);
  }
  
  <span class="code-keyword">public</span> ThrowableProxy(Throwable throwable, Set<Throwable> exclude, <span class="code-object">boolean</span> circular) {
   
    <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.throwable = throwable;
    <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (!circular) {
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.className = throwable.getClass().getName();
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.message = throwable.getMessage();
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.stackTraceElementProxyArray = ThrowableProxyUtil.steArrayToStepArray(throwable
          .getStackTrace());

      Throwable nested = throwable.getCause();

      <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (nested != <span class="code-keyword">null</span>) {
        <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (exclude==<span class="code-keyword">null</span>) {
            exclude = createExcludeSet(throwable);
        }
        <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (!exclude.contains(nested)) {
          exclude.add(nested);
          <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.cause = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> ThrowableProxy(nested, exclude, <span class="code-keyword">false</span>);
          <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.cause.commonFrames = ThrowableProxyUtil
              .findNumberOfCommonFrames(nested.getStackTrace(),
                  stackTraceElementProxyArray);
        } <span class="code-keyword">else</span> {
          <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.cause = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> ThrowableProxy(nested, exclude, <span class="code-keyword">true</span>);
        }
      }
      <span class="code-keyword">if</span>(GET_SUPPRESSED_METHOD != <span class="code-keyword">null</span>) {
        <span class="code-comment">// <span class="code-keyword">this</span> will only execute on Java 7
</span>        <span class="code-keyword">try</span> {
          <span class="code-object">Object</span> obj = GET_SUPPRESSED_METHOD.invoke(throwable);
          <span class="code-keyword">if</span>(obj <span class="code-keyword">instanceof</span> Throwable[]) {
            Throwable[] throwableSuppressed = (Throwable[]) obj;
            <span class="code-keyword">if</span>(throwableSuppressed.length > 0) {
              suppressed = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> ThrowableProxy[throwableSuppressed.length];
              <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (exclude==<span class="code-keyword">null</span>) {
                exclude = createExcludeSet(throwable);
              }
              <span class="code-keyword">for</span>(<span class="code-object">int</span> i=0;i<throwableSuppressed.length;i++) {
                <span class="code-keyword">if</span> (!exclude.contains(throwableSuppressed[i])) {
                  exclude.add(throwableSuppressed[i]);
                  <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.suppressed[i] = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> ThrowableProxy(throwableSuppressed[i], exclude, <span class="code-keyword">false</span>);
                  <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.suppressed[i].commonFrames = ThrowableProxyUtil
                      .findNumberOfCommonFrames(throwableSuppressed[i].getStackTrace(),
                          stackTraceElementProxyArray);
                } <span class="code-keyword">else</span> {
                  <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.suppressed[i] = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> ThrowableProxy(throwableSuppressed[i], exclude, <span class="code-keyword">true</span>);
                }
              }
            }
          }
        } <span class="code-keyword">catch</span> (IllegalAccessException e) {
          <span class="code-comment">// ignore
</span>        } <span class="code-keyword">catch</span> (InvocationTargetException e) {
          <span class="code-comment">// ignore
</span>        }
      }
    } <span class="code-keyword">else</span> {
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.className = <span class="code-quote">"[CIRCULAR REFERENCE:"</span> + throwable.getClass().getName();
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.message = throwable.getMessage() + <span class="code-quote">"]"</span>;
      <span class="code-keyword">this</span>.stackTraceElementProxyArray = NO_STACK_TRACE;
    }

  }

  <span class="code-keyword">private</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> Set<Throwable> createExcludeSet(Throwable parent) {
    Set<Throwable> exclude = Collections.newSetFromMap(<span class="code-keyword">new</span> IdentityHashMap<Throwable, <span class="code-object">Boolean</span>>());
    exclude.add(parent);
    <span class="code-keyword">return</span> exclude;
  }
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<p>Basically, it will use an IdentityHashMap to maintain the throwable proxies created, partially skipping those that have already been processed.</p>

<p>To minimize the string concatenation, the message could just be shortened to throwable.getMessage(), although something must be prepended to the class name to indicate its a circular reference.</p>

<p>The above code would then generate:</p>
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<pre class="code-java">ERROR ROOT - Error
java.lang.Exception: <span class="code-keyword">null</span>
        at NewClass.main(NewClass.java:20) ~[classes/:na]
        Suppressed: java.lang.Exception: <span class="code-keyword">null</span>
                at NewClass.main(NewClass.java:21) ~[classes/:na]
                Suppressed: [CIRCULAR REFERENCE:java.lang.Exception: <span class="code-keyword">null</span>]
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