# == ToDo # + Move Error.pm code into module # + 'with' clashes with Moose # + Remove Simple # + Support $_ as error topic # # - Add system error classes # - Support autodie # - Move most Error stuff into errors package # - Replace ObjectifyCallback # # == Tests # - nesting of try stuff # + otherwise # + except # + -with_using # + $_ is used # # - assert # - $@ is always undef #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ package Error; use strict; use overload ( '""' => 'stringify', '0+' => 'value', 'bool' => sub { return 1; }, 'fallback' => 1 ); $Error::Depth = 0; # Depth to pass to caller() $Error::Debug = 0; # Generate verbose stack traces @Error::STACK = (); # Clause stack for try $Error::THROWN = undef; # last error thrown, a workaround until die $ref works my $LAST; # Last error created my %ERROR; # Last error associated with package sub _throw_Error_Simple { my $args = shift; return RuntimeError->new($args->{'text'}); } $Error::ObjectifyCallback = \&_throw_Error_Simple; # Exported subs are defined in Error::subs use Scalar::Util (); sub import { shift; my @tags = @_; local $Exporter::ExportLevel = $Exporter::ExportLevel + 1; @tags = grep { if( $_ eq ':warndie' ) { Error::WarnDie->import(); 0; } else { 1; } } @tags; Error::subs->import(@tags); } # I really want to use last for the name of this method, but it is a keyword # which prevent the syntax last Error sub prior { shift; # ignore return $LAST unless @_; my $pkg = shift; return exists $ERROR{$pkg} ? $ERROR{$pkg} : undef unless ref($pkg); my $obj = $pkg; my $err = undef; if($obj->isa('HASH')) { $err = $obj->{'__Error__'} if exists $obj->{'__Error__'}; } elsif($obj->isa('GLOB')) { $err = ${*$obj}{'__Error__'} if exists ${*$obj}{'__Error__'}; } $err; } sub flush { shift; #ignore unless (@_) { $LAST = undef; return; } my $pkg = shift; return unless ref($pkg); undef $ERROR{$pkg} if defined $ERROR{$pkg}; } # Return as much information as possible about where the error # happened. The -stacktrace element only exists if $Error::DEBUG # was set when the error was created sub stacktrace { my $self = shift; return $self->{'-stacktrace'} if exists $self->{'-stacktrace'}; my $text = exists $self->{'-text'} ? $self->{'-text'} : "Died"; $text .= sprintf(" at %s line %d.\n", $self->file, $self->line) unless($text =~ /\n$/s); $text; } sub associate { my $err = shift; my $obj = shift; return unless ref($obj); if($obj->isa('HASH')) { $obj->{'__Error__'} = $err; } elsif($obj->isa('GLOB')) { ${*$obj}{'__Error__'} = $err; } $obj = ref($obj); $ERROR{ ref($obj) } = $err; return; } sub new { my $self = shift; my($pkg,$file,$line) = caller($Error::Depth); my $err = bless { '-package' => $pkg, '-file' => $file, '-line' => $line, ((@_ % 2) ? ('-text') : ()), @_ }, $self; $err->associate($err->{'-object'}) if(exists $err->{'-object'}); # To always create a stacktrace would be very inefficient, so # we only do it if $Error::Debug is set if($Error::Debug) { require Carp; local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Error::Depth; my $text = defined($err->{'-text'}) ? $err->{'-text'} : "Error"; my $trace = Carp::longmess($text); # Remove try calls from the trace $trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog; $trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::run_clauses[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog; $err->{'-stacktrace'} = $trace } $@ = $LAST = $ERROR{$pkg} = $err; } # Throw an error. this contains some very gory code. sub throw { my $self = shift; local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1; # if we are not rethrow-ing then create the object to throw $self = $self->new(@_) unless ref($self); die $Error::THROWN = $self; } # syntactic sugar for # # die with Error( ... ); sub with { my $self = shift; local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1; $self->new(@_); } # syntactic sugar for # # record Error( ... ) and return; sub record { my $self = shift; local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1; $self->new(@_); } # catch clause for # # try { ... } catch CLASS with { ... } sub catch { my $pkg = shift; my $code = shift; my $clauses = shift || {}; my $catch = $clauses->{'catch'} ||= []; unshift @$catch, $pkg, $code; $clauses; } # Object query methods sub object { my $self = shift; exists $self->{'-object'} ? $self->{'-object'} : undef; } sub file { my $self = shift; exists $self->{'-file'} ? $self->{'-file'} : undef; } sub line { my $self = shift; exists $self->{'-line'} ? $self->{'-line'} : undef; } sub text { my $self = shift; exists $self->{'-text'} ? $self->{'-text'} : undef; } # overload methods sub stringify { my $self = shift; defined $self->{'-text'} ? $self->{'-text'} : "Died"; } sub value { my $self = shift; exists $self->{'-value'} ? $self->{'-value'} : undef; } ########################################################################## ########################################################################## # Inspired by code from Jesse Glick and # Peter Seibel package Error::subs; use Exporter (); use vars qw(@EXPORT_OK @ISA %EXPORT_TAGS); @EXPORT_OK = qw(try with finally except otherwise); %EXPORT_TAGS = (try => \@EXPORT_OK); @ISA = qw(Exporter); sub run_clauses ($$$\@) { my($clauses,$err,$wantarray,$result) = @_; my $code = undef; $err = $Error::ObjectifyCallback->({'text' =>$err}) unless ref($err); CATCH: { # catch my $catch; if(defined($catch = $clauses->{'catch'})) { my $i = 0; CATCHLOOP: for( ; $i < @$catch ; $i += 2) { my $pkg = $catch->[$i]; unless(defined $pkg) { #except splice(@$catch,$i,2,$catch->[$i+1]->($err)); $i -= 2; next CATCHLOOP; } elsif(Scalar::Util::blessed($err) && $err->isa($pkg)) { $code = $catch->[$i+1]; while(1) { my $more = 0; local($Error::THROWN, $@); $_ = $@ = $err; my $ok = eval { $@ = $err; if($wantarray) { @{$result} = $code->($err,\$more); } elsif(defined($wantarray)) { @{$result} = (); $result->[0] = $code->($err,\$more); } else { $code->($err,\$more); } 1; }; if( $ok ) { next CATCHLOOP if $more; undef $err; } else { $err = $@ || $Error::THROWN; $err = $Error::ObjectifyCallback->({'text' =>$err}) unless ref($err); } last CATCH; }; } } } # otherwise my $owise; if(defined($owise = $clauses->{'otherwise'})) { my $code = $clauses->{'otherwise'}; my $more = 0; local($Error::THROWN, $@); $_ = $@ = $err; my $ok = eval { $@ = $err; if($wantarray) { @{$result} = $code->($err,\$more); } elsif(defined($wantarray)) { @{$result} = (); $result->[0] = $code->($err,\$more); } else { $code->($err,\$more); } 1; }; if( $ok ) { undef $err; } else { $err = $@ || $Error::THROWN; $err = $Error::ObjectifyCallback->({'text' =>$err}) unless ref($err); } } } undef $_; undef $@; return $err; } sub try (&;$) { my $try = shift; my $clauses = @_ ? shift : {}; my $ok = 0; my $err = undef; my @result = (); unshift @Error::STACK, $clauses; my $wantarray = wantarray(); do { local $Error::THROWN = undef; local $@ = undef; $ok = eval { if($wantarray) { @result = $try->(); } elsif(defined $wantarray) { $result[0] = $try->(); } else { $try->(); } 1; }; $err = $@ || $Error::THROWN unless $ok; }; shift @Error::STACK; $err = run_clauses($clauses,$err,wantarray,@result) unless($ok); $clauses->{'finally'}->() if(defined($clauses->{'finally'})); if (defined($err)) { if (Scalar::Util::blessed($err) && $err->can('throw')) { throw $err; } else { die $err; } } wantarray ? @result : $result[0]; } # Each clause adds a sub to the list of clauses. The finally clause is # always the last, and the otherwise clause is always added just before # the finally clause. # # All clauses, except the finally clause, add a sub which takes one argument # this argument will be the error being thrown. The sub will return a code ref # if that clause can handle that error, otherwise undef is returned. # # The otherwise clause adds a sub which unconditionally returns the users # code reference, this is why it is forced to be last. # # The catch clause is defined in Error.pm, as the syntax causes it to # be called as a method sub with (&;$) { @_ } sub finally (&) { my $code = shift; my $clauses = { 'finally' => $code }; $clauses; } # The except clause is a block which returns a hashref or a list of # key-value pairs, where the keys are the classes and the values are subs. sub except (&;$) { my $code = shift; my $clauses = shift || {}; my $catch = $clauses->{'catch'} ||= []; my $sub = sub { my $ref; my(@array) = $code->($_[0]); if(@array == 1 && ref($array[0])) { $ref = $array[0]; $ref = [ %$ref ] if(UNIVERSAL::isa($ref,'HASH')); } else { $ref = \@array; } @$ref }; unshift @{$catch}, undef, $sub; $clauses; } sub otherwise (&;$) { my $code = shift; my $clauses = shift || {}; if(exists $clauses->{'otherwise'}) { require Carp; Carp::croak("Multiple otherwise clauses"); } $clauses->{'otherwise'} = $code; $clauses; } 1; package Error::WarnDie; sub gen_callstack($) { my ( $start ) = @_; require Carp; local $Carp::CarpLevel = $start; my $trace = Carp::longmess(""); # Remove try calls from the trace $trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog; $trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::run_clauses[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog; my @callstack = split( m/\n/, $trace ); return @callstack; } my $old_DIE; my $old_WARN; sub DEATH { my ( $e ) = @_; local $SIG{__DIE__} = $old_DIE if( defined $old_DIE ); die @_ if $^S; my ( $etype, $message, $location, @callstack ); if ( ref($e) && $e->isa( "Error" ) ) { $etype = "exception of type " . ref( $e ); $message = $e->text; $location = $e->file . ":" . $e->line; @callstack = split( m/\n/, $e->stacktrace ); } else { # Don't apply subsequent layer of message formatting die $e if( $e =~ m/^\nUnhandled perl error caught at toplevel:\n\n/ ); $etype = "perl error"; my $stackdepth = 0; while( caller( $stackdepth ) =~ m/^Error(?:$|::)/ ) { $stackdepth++ } @callstack = gen_callstack( $stackdepth + 1 ); $message = "$e"; chomp $message; if ( $message =~ s/ at (.*?) line (\d+)\.$// ) { $location = $1 . ":" . $2; } else { my @caller = caller( $stackdepth ); $location = $caller[1] . ":" . $caller[2]; } } shift @callstack; # Do it this way in case there are no elements; we don't print a spurious \n my $callstack = join( "", map { "$_\n"} @callstack ); die "\nUnhandled $etype caught at toplevel:\n\n $message\n\nThrown from: $location\n\nFull stack trace:\n\n$callstack\n"; } sub TAXES { my ( $message ) = @_; local $SIG{__WARN__} = $old_WARN if( defined $old_WARN ); $message =~ s/ at .*? line \d+\.$//; chomp $message; my @callstack = gen_callstack( 1 ); my $location = shift @callstack; # $location already starts in a leading space $message .= $location; # Do it this way in case there are no elements; we don't print a spurious \n my $callstack = join( "", map { "$_\n"} @callstack ); warn "$message:\n$callstack"; } sub import { $old_DIE = $SIG{__DIE__}; $old_WARN = $SIG{__WARN__}; $SIG{__DIE__} = \&DEATH; $SIG{__WARN__} = \&TAXES; } #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ package errors; use strict; use 5.008; our $VERSION = '0.03'; # use XXX; $YAML::UseCode = 1; sub import { my ($class, $directive) = @_; if (not $directive) { $class->export_commands( qw(try catch with except otherwise finally assert) ); } elsif ($directive eq '-with_using') { $class->export_commands( qw(try catch using except otherwise finally assert) ); } elsif ($directive eq '-class') { my ($class, %fields) = @_[2..$#_]; my $isa = $fields{-isa} || 'Error'; no strict 'refs'; @{$class . '::ISA'} = ($isa); } else { die "Invalid usage of errors module: 'use errors @_[1..$#_]'"; } } sub export_commands { my ($class, @exports) = @_; local @Error::subs::EXPORT_OK = @exports; local %Error::subs::EXPORT_TAGS; $Error::subs::EXPORT_TAGS{try} = \@exports; local $Exporter::ExportLevel += 2; Error::subs->import(':try'); } { no warnings 'redefine'; # This function is modified from Error.pm sub Error::subs::assert($$) { my ($value, $msg) = @_; die($msg) unless $value; # throw Error($msg) unless $value; return $value; } *Error::subs::using = \&Error::subs::with; } package RuntimeError; @RuntimeError::ISA = ('Error'); 1; =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME errors - Error Handling for Perl =head1 STATUS This module is still under design. Don't use it in production yet. A few things in this documentation are not yet implemented. NOTE: If you have suggestions as to how this module should behave, now is a great time to contact the author. =head1 SYNOPSIS use strict; use warnings; use errors; use errors -class => 'UncoolError'; try { $cool = something(); throw UncoolError("Something is not cool") if not $cool; assert($ok, "Everything is ok"); } catch AssertionError with { my $e = shift; warn "$e"; } catch UncoolError with { # $_ is the same as $_[0] warn; } otherwise { # $@ is the same as $_[0] warn "Some other error: $@"; } finally { cleanup(); }; =head1 DESCRIPTION The C module adds clean, simple, sane, flexible and usable error handling to Perl. The module does several things: First, C exports a error handling syntax that is backwards compatible with Error.pm, but with a few improvements. Error.pm syntax is very well done; about as close to other modern language's exception handling as you can get using Pure Normal Perl. Second, all errors that are thrown are first class Perl objects. They all inherit from the C class, which is provided by default. This allows you to manipulate errors in a consistent and intuitive way. Third, The C module makes it trivial to define your own error classes, and encourages you to do so. Simply define a class that inherits from C (or one of its subclasses). Fourth, C turns plain (string based) system errors and other die/croak errors into specific Perl objects. It uses heuristics on the error string to determine which Error class to use, and defaults to the C class. Fifth, C provides dozens of predefined error classes that you can use or that get used automatically by the auto-objectification. These classes are in an inheritance hierarchy that should become standard for Perl. Lastly, C is designed to play nice with all the modern Perl frameworks (like Moose) and the other popular error handling modules. =head1 SIMPLE TO USE The main goal of C is to encourage the widespread use of error handling in Perl. In other languages like Python, coining your own named error classes and using raise/except is as common as using if/else statements. Here's a Python example. class FooError(Exception): pass try: something() catch FooError as e: handle_error(e) Now you can do that in Perl: use errors; package FooError; use base 'Error'; package MyModule; try { something(); } catch FooError with { my $e = shift; handle_error($e); }; As you can see, using C is simple and unobtrusive. Why not start all your programs with: use strict; use errors; use warnings; Defining your own error classes is also trivial, and C provides an even more concise way to do it: use errors -class => 'FooError'; In the catch/with clause, you can also use C<$@> to access the current error object like this: catch FooError with { handle_error($@); }; =head1 USAGE There are a few different usages of C that you should be aware of: =over =item use errors; This exports the C syntax, and loads all the C functionality. =item use errors -class => 'ClassName' [, -isa => 'BaseClass']; The C<-class> directive gives you a way to define an error subclass at compile time, in one simple line of code. You can optionally specify the base class. The default base class is C. NOTE: This usage does not export the C (try/catch) syntax. =item use errors -with_using; Unfortunately C and C both export the C subroutine. If C sees that C (or someone else) has already exported C, it will export the C subroutine instead: use Moose; use errors; try {...} catch Error using {...}; The C<-with_using> directive tells C to do this regardless. =back =head1 SYNTAX The C module introduces a number of keyword constructs that you can use to create and manage error objects. =over =item try { ... } Like an eval block. After the code is evaluated, the appropriate clauses (catch, except, otherwise, finally) are called. =item catch with { ... } This clause is invoked when an error happens in the C block, and the class of the error object satisfies the ErrorSelector specified. You may specify many C clauses, to deal with different error situations. The can be any of the following forms: # Class matches a specific error class catch ErrorClass with { ... } # Class matches a specific regexp catch qr/.../ with { ... } # A subroutine returns a true value catch sub { ... } with { ... } # One of a list of error selectors catch selector1, selector2, selector3 with { ... } # All of an array list of selectors catch [ selector1, selector2, selector3 ] with { ... } NOTE: This is a major difference from Error.pm, which only allows a single class as a selector. =item except { ... } This clause returns a hash of error handlers, if no handler is found. =item otherwise { ... } This clause is invoked when there is an error from the C block, but no C clauses were invoked. =item finally { ... } This clause is always invoked as the final step in the C sequence, regardless of whatever things happen. =item throw("..."); The throw keyword is not actually exported. It is a method call on the Error object. So you can use it indirectly or directly. These two calls are identical: throw MyError("Something is wrong"); MyError->throw("Something is wrong"); You can also use throw to reraise an error in a catch/except block, like this: $@->throw(); =item assert($value, "assertion message"); This function will throw an AssertionError error unless C<$value> is true. =back =head1 ERROR OBJECTS All errrors are Perl objects. They all have the 'Error' class as their topmost parent class. They all have the following methods and properties: =over =item throw Error($msg [, %properties]); This method throws a new instance of the error class. It is described more fully above. =item $@->text() The C method gets or sets the error message for the object. =item Stringification All Error objects turn into their C string value when used in string context. =item Numification All Error objects turn into a unique number when used in numeric context. =over =head1 PREDEFINED CLASSES The C module defines a number of error classes that it uses to cast errors into. You can also create error objects yourself using these classes. The classes are defined in a hierarchy: + Error + StandardError + ArithmeticError + DivideByZeroError + AssertionError + IOError + IOFileError + IOFileOpenError + NotImplementedError + SyntaxError + RuntimeError + UserError + user defined errors should inherit from this Some of these are obvious. Some deserve elaboration. =over =item AssertionError Indicates a failed C call. =item SyntaxError Indicates a bad string eval. =item NotImplementedError You can throw this in a stub subroutine. =item RuntimeError Indicates an unknown error probably caused by a C statement.. =back NOTE: These error classes are still being determined. This list is not yet complete. The current hierarchy was influenced from these sources. * http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?autodie#CATEGORIES * http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0348/#new-hierarchy =head1 FAQ =over =item Q: What is the difference between 'errors' and 'exceptions'? =item A: Four letters. =item Q: Is C performant? =item A: Yes. Very. The module is small, simple, has no dependencies and no string evals. =item Q: Why another error/exception module? =item A: Because it has the perfect name. =back =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The original code and ideas for this module were taken from Error.pm. =head1 AUTHOR Ingy döt Net =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2009. Ingy döt Net. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html =cut