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Java Spring Stacktraces: Hide the Framework, Keep the Bug

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A NullPointerException in a Spring Boot controller. Your code has the bug on one line. Spring's stack trace is 80+ lines.

The trace walks through DispatcherServlet, HandlerMethodArgumentResolverComposite, RequestMappingHandlerAdapter, InvocableHandlerMethod, and a dozen more framework classes. Your AI reads every one.

Before: Spring Boot NPE 

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.length()" because "str" is null
    at com.myapp.service.UserService.validateName(UserService.java:42)
    at com.myapp.controller.UserController.createUser(UserController.java:28)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:205)
    at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:150)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(...)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(...)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(...)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1067)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:963)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1006)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:909)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:681)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(...)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(...)
    ... 22 more
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20+ lines. Two matter.

After: Through ContextZip 

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.length()" because "str" is null
    at com.myapp.service.UserService.validateName(UserService.java:42)
    at com.myapp.controller.UserController.createUser(UserController.java:28)
💾 contextzip: 2,891 → 214 chars (93% saved)
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Exception message + your two application frames. 93% reduction. Spring, Tomcat, and JDK internals stripped.

cargo install contextzip
eval "$(contextzip init)"
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