1.32 Jun 28, 2010

• Removed Test::Most dependency, which was causing a circular dependency chain. Reported by Burak Gursoy. RT #58889.

1.31 Jun 26, 2010

• Made it possible to use Exception::Class::Base without loading Exception::Class. Reported by Alex Peters. RT #57269.

1.30 Mar 20, 2010

• Added the ability to create light weight exceptions, which don't record a stack trace or any other context info (time, pid, etc.). This is done by setting $class->NoContextInfo to a true value for the exception class. Based on a patch by Graham Barr. RT #54826.

1.29 May 8, 2009

• Make sure that there is only one line that the toolchain can pick up when looking for this module's $VERSION.

1.28 May 6, 2009

• Removed Exception::Class::Base->do_trace and ->NoObjectRefs, both of which have been undocumented for many years.
  • Moved Exception::Class::Base to its own file, so it doesn't overwrite the $VERSION in Exception::Class (and for general sanity). Reported by Kirk Baucom.

1.27 May 4, 2009

• The error message for an exception no longer defaults to $!. This was a bad idea, and has bitten some people. Addresses RT #43600.
• I'm now only supporting Perl 5.8.1+. This module broke on 5.6.2 (and 5.8.0) at some point and I don't really care enough to fix it. Non-intrusive patches to make it work on 5.8.0 or less (again) will be accepted.

1.26 Oct 25, 2008

• No code changes, just bumped the Devel::StackTrace dependency to 1.20.

  The changes in 1.25 exposed a bug in Devel::StackTrace which has now been fixed. This caused HTML::Mason test failures, among other things. Reported by Andreas Koenig.

1.25 Oct 21, 2008

• The Exception::Class::Base constructor no longer looks at the associated Devel::StackTrace object's frames. Avoiding looking at the frames should make constructing exception objects much faster. Instead the information based on the stack trace frames - package(), file(), and line() - is only retrieved when it is requested. Patch by Ruslan Zakirov. RT #40221.

1.24 Mar 30, 2008

• Added a MaxArgLength class parameter to go along with the new max_arg_length constructor param for Devel::StackTrace objects. Patch by Ian Burrell.

1.23 Jan 14, 2006

• Fix code bugs in the SYNOPSIS.
• Exception::Class->caught() now returns $@ if not given an argument.

1.22 Sep 30, 2005

• Added Exception::Class::Base->caught() so you can write "My::Error->caught()". Apparently this is what Damian documented in Perl Best Practices. Thanks to JD Hedden for pointing this out.
• Require Devel::StackTrace 1.12 to fix a test failure on Win32. Reported by Garrett Goebel.

1.21 Apr 17, 2005

• Added Exception::Class->caught() as syntactic sugar for catching exceptions in a "safe" manner. See the docs for details. Suggested by Damian Conway.

1.20 Jan 1, 2005

• Moved the Classes() method to Exception::Class, now as a function, which is where it really belongs. Also corrected the docs for this function, as they incorrectly implied that it would return all subclasses, instead of just subclasses which were created when loading Exception::Class.
• Added a Build.PL file, and releases are now signed with Module::Signature.
• Added ignore_class and ignore_package constructor parameters. Patch by Daisuke Maki.

1.19 Mar 10, 2004

• Identical to 1.18 except that it requires Devel::StackTrace 1.10, which fixes a failure in this package's test when run with Perl 5.6.1. Reported by Jesse Erlbaum.

1.18 Feb 21, 2004

• Added RespectOverload class method, which can be used to control the respect_overload parameter for Devel::StackTrace objects.

1.17 Feb 20, 2004

• Document that new() is always called to create an Exception::Class::Base object. Suggested by Steve Hay.
• Fix a test that failed with Devel::StackTrace 1.05. Basically, the test expected output from Devel::StackTrace that reflected a bug that was fixed in 1.05. Reported by Jesse Vincent.

1.16 Sep 25, 2003

• David Wheeler's patch exposed a bug in Devel::StackTrace which could cause exceptions to not have any value set for package, file, or line. This is fixed by depending on Devel::StackTrace 1.04. This release is otherwise identical to 1.15. Reported by Steve Hay.

1.15 Sep 17, 2003

• Exceptions thrown from an alias subroutine always had "Exception::Class" as their package name. Patch by David Wheeler.

1.14 Jul 04, 2003

• ** BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITY ** NoRefs is now true by default. This means that stacktraces will not store references unless you explicitly set NoRefs to a false value. This is done because it's too easy to leak memory when references are saved in stack traces.
• Fixed a very odd bug where Exception::Class could mistakenly think that an exception class had been created when it really hadn't. This was only exposed with bleadperl (5.8.1-to-be), and is unlikely to affect anyone using an existing Perl version.

1.13 Jun 21, 2003

• Documented the Exception::Class::Base->Fields method, which can be called on subclasses to determine what extra fields they have defined. Suggested by Chris Winters.

1.12 Apr 03, 2003

• Added the Exception::Class::Base->Classes method. Patch by David Wheeler.

1.11 Feb 20, 2003

• A description containing a single quote or backslash would cause a syntax error in the code generated by Exception::Class. Patch by Luc St-Louis.

1.10 Jan 28, 2003

• The alias feature had a bug that showed up when an alias was assigned to a class whose parent had not yet been made.

1.09 Jan 22, 2003

• Tweak to Fields method so that it returns empty list for 5.6.1 and 5.00503.
• Require Devel::StackTrace 1.03 to fix potential recursion problem between the two classes when stringifying exceptions.

1.08 Jan 21, 2003

• Added "alias" feature, which allows you to create a subroutine that throws a specified exception. This is based on code created by Ken Williams for Mason.

1.07 Sep 9, 2002

• Forgot to require Devel::StackTrace 1.01.

1.06 release date?

• Use File::Spec when testing file method so that test 7 passes on all platforms. Reported by Ron Savage.
• Use Test::More for test suite.
• Change NoObjectRefs method to NoRefs, to match change in Devel::StackTrace 1.01. The old method is deprecated, but will continue to work. However, it now means the same thing as NoRefs.

1.05 Aug 23, 2002 (from Taiwan)

• Add NoObjectRefs class method to prevent Devel::StackTrace from holding onto objects internally, thus delaying destruction. Based on a discussion with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.04 Aug 22, 2002 (from Taiwan)

• Fix messed up tarball as reported by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.03 Aug 21, 2002 (from Taiwan)

• Some versions of Perl may give an error about "Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::time()". This should be fixed now. Reported by Ron Savage.

1.02 Aug 20, 2002 (from Taiwan)

• Fields set in a parent class were not actually being inherited by children. Patch (with tests!) by David Wheeler.
• Allow a single argument (error/message) to the constructor. Patch by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.
• General doc cleanup.

1.01 May 23, 2002

• Make sure that exception objects always test as true in a boolean context.

1.00 Mar 8, 2002

• Added a full_message method intended to be overridden when you create a subclass that uses fields that you want included in the stringification of the object. Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.99 Mar 6, 2002

• The much-requested "arbitrary attributes" feature has been added. Thanks to Jon Swartz for the patch. You can now do this:

  use Exception::Class ( 'My::Exception' => { fields => [ 'bar', 'baz' ] } );

  ...

  if ( UNIVERSAL::isa( $@, 'My::Exception' ) { print $@->bar, $@->baz; }

0.98 Feb 20, 2002

• Subclasses that overrode the ->as_string method had to repeat the stringification overloading for exception objects. This has been changed so that the stringification overloading is now

  sub { $[0]->asstring }

  Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.97 Nov 25, 2001

• Incorporated a patch from Ken Williams that works around several Perl 5.6.0 bugs.
• Test 31 was explicitly different for 5.6.0. Ken said that the difference actually made it fail (whereas in the past for me it succeeded). Tweak this test a bit more to just be more flexible under 5.6.0.

0.96 Nov 23, 2001

• Changes wasn't in MANIFEST. Oops.
• Doc tweaks and cleanup of README.
• Make do_trace a synonym to Trace for backwards compatibility.

0.95 Nov 22, 2001

** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE **

• Remove do_trace method and replace it with Trace method, which is inherited by subclasses.
• Exception object now always have a Devel::StackTrace object available. The Trace method only determines whether or not it is included when the exception is stringified.
• A new parameter show_trace for throw which allows you to override the value of Trace on a case by case basis.
• Fix uninit value warning with 5.00503.

0.90 Oct 23, 2001

• fix buglet reported by Terrence Brannon that could occur while trying to figure out where the exception was thrown, if the exception was thrown from the package that the exception is an object of.
• doc improvements suggested Nathaniel Smith (related to using Error.pm) and Mark Stosberg.

0.85

• added ability to use message instead of error as hash key to constructor.

0.8 Sep 3, 2000

• changed object from psuedo-hash to regular hash
• added package, file, & line methods to exception object.
• added more tests for exception object accessors

0.7 Sep 3, 2000

• hack in test.pl to allow tests to pass under 5.6.0.
• README details various Perl bugs this module (along with Devel::StackTrace) can expose and some possible workarounds.

0.6 Jun 27, 2000

• renamed to Exception::Class

0.5 Jun 26, 2000

• Initial release, as Class::Exceptions.