autodie::exception - Exceptions from autodying functions.


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NAME

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autodie::exception - Exceptions from autodying functions.

SYNOPSIS

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    eval {
        use autodie;

        open(my $fh, '<', 'some_file.txt');

        ...
    };

    if (my $E = $@) {
        say "Ooops!  ",$E->caller," had problems: $@";
    }




DESCRIPTION

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When an autodie enabled function fails, it generates an autodie::exception object. This can be interrogated to determine further information about the error that occurred.

This document is broken into two sections; those methods that are most useful to the end-developer, and those methods for anyone wishing to subclass or get very familiar with autodie::exception.

Common Methods

These methods are intended to be used in the everyday dealing of exceptions.

The following assume that the error has been copied into a separate scalar:

    if ($E = $@) {
        ...
    }

This is not required, but is recommended in case any code is called which may reset or alter $@.

args

    my $array_ref = $E->args;

Provides a reference to the arguments passed to the subroutine that died.

function

    my $sub = $E->function;

The subroutine (including package) that threw the exception.

file

    my $file = $E->file;

The file in which the error occurred (eg, myscript.pl or MyTest.pm).

package

    my $package = $E->package;

The package from which the exceptional subroutine was called.

caller

    my $caller = $E->caller;

The subroutine that called the exceptional code.

line

    my $line = $E->line;

The line in $E->file where the exceptional code was called.

context

    my $context = $E->context;

The context in which the subroutine was called. This can be 'list', 'scalar', or undefined (unknown). It will never be 'void', as autodie always captures the return value in one way or another.

return

    my $return_value = $E->return;

The value(s) returned by the failed subroutine. When the subroutine was called in a list context, this will always be a reference to an array containing the results. When the subroutine was called in a scalar context, this will be the actual scalar returned.

errno

    my $errno = $E->errno;

The value of $! at the time when the exception occurred.

NOTE: This method will leave the main autodie::exception class and become part of a role in the future. You should only call errno for exceptions where $! would reasonably have been set on failure.

eval_error

    my $old_eval_error = $E->eval_error;

The contents of $@ immediately after autodie triggered an exception. This may be useful when dealing with modules such as Text::Balanced that set (but do not throw) $@ on error.

matches

    if ( $e->matches('open') ) { ... }

    if ( $e ~~ 'open' ) { ... }

matches is used to determine whether a given exception matches a particular role. On Perl 5.10, using smart-match (~~) with an autodie::exception object will use matches underneath.

An exception is considered to match a string if:

Advanced methods

The following methods, while usable from anywhere, are primarily intended for developers wishing to subclass autodie::exception, write code that registers custom error messages, or otherwise work closely with the autodie::exception model.

register

    autodie::exception->register( 'CORE::open' => \&mysub );

The register method allows for the registration of a message handler for a given subroutine. The full subroutine name including the package should be used.

Registered message handlers will receive the autodie::exception object as the first parameter.

add_file_and_line

    say "Problem occurred",$@->add_file_and_line;

Returns the string at %s line %d, where %s is replaced with the filename, and %d is replaced with the line number.

Primarily intended for use by format handlers.

stringify

    say "The error was: ",$@->stringify;

Formats the error as a human readable string. Usually there's no reason to call this directly, as it is used automatically if an autodie::exception object is ever used as a string.

Child classes can override this method to change how they're stringified.

format_default

    my $error_string = $E->format_default;

This produces the default error string for the given exception, without using any registered message handlers. It is primarily intended to be called from a message handler when they have been passed an exception they don't want to format.

Child classes can override this method to change how default messages are formatted.

new

    my $error = autodie::exception->new(
        args => \@_,
        function => "CORE::open",
        errno => $!,
        context => 'scalar',
        return => undef,
    );




Creates a new autodie::exception object. Normally called directly from an autodying function. The function argument is required, its the function we were trying to call that generated the exception. The args parameter is optional.

The errno value is optional. In versions of autodie::exception 1.99 and earlier the code would try to automatically use the current value of $!, but this was unreliable and is no longer supported.

Atrributes such as package, file, and caller are determined automatically, and cannot be specified.

SEE ALSO

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autodie, autodie::exception::system

LICENSE

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Copyright (C)2008 Paul Fenwick

This is free software. You may modify and/or redistribute this code under the same terms as Perl 5.10 itself, or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5.

AUTHOR

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Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au>


autodie documentation Contained in the autodie distribution.
package autodie::exception;
use 5.008;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp qw(croak);

our $DEBUG = 0;

use overload
    q{""} => "stringify"
;

# Overload smart-match only if we're using 5.10

use if ($] >= 5.010), overload => '~~'  => "matches";

our $VERSION = '2.10';

my $PACKAGE = __PACKAGE__;  # Useful to have a scalar for hash keys.

sub args        { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{args}; }

sub function   { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{function};  }

sub file        { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{file};  }

sub package     { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{package}; }

sub caller      { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{caller};  }

sub line        { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{line};  }

sub context     { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{context} }

sub return      { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{return} }

# TODO: Make errno part of a role.  It doesn't make sense for
# everything.

sub errno       { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{errno}; }

sub eval_error { return $_[0]->{$PACKAGE}{eval_error}; }

{
    my (%cache);

    sub matches {
        my ($this, $that) = @_;

        # TODO - Handle references
        croak "UNIMPLEMENTED" if ref $that;

        my $sub = $this->function;

        if ($DEBUG) {
            my $sub2 = $this->function;
            warn "Smart-matching $that against $sub / $sub2\n";
        }

        # Direct subname match.
        return 1 if $that eq $sub;
        return 1 if $that !~ /:/ and "CORE::$that" eq $sub;
        return 0 if $that !~ /^:/;

        # Cached match / check tags.
        require Fatal;

        if (exists $cache{$sub}{$that}) {
            return $cache{$sub}{$that};
        }

        # This rather awful looking line checks to see if our sub is in the
        # list of expanded tags, caches it, and returns the result.

        return $cache{$sub}{$that} = grep { $_ eq $sub } @{ $this->_expand_tag($that) };
    }
}

# This exists primarily so that child classes can override or
# augment it if they wish.

sub _expand_tag {
    my ($this, @args) = @_;

    return Fatal->_expand_tag(@args);
}

# The table below records customer formatters.
# TODO - Should this be a package var instead?
# TODO - Should these be in a completely different file, or
#        perhaps loaded on demand?  Most formatters will never
#        get used in most programs.

my %formatter_of = (
    'CORE::close'   => \&_format_close,
    'CORE::open'    => \&_format_open,
    'CORE::dbmopen' => \&_format_dbmopen,
    'CORE::flock'   => \&_format_flock,
);

# TODO: Our tests only check LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB is properly
# formatted.  Try other combinations and ensure they work
# correctly.

sub _format_flock {
    my ($this) = @_;

    require Fcntl;

    my $filehandle = $this->args->[0];
    my $raw_mode   = $this->args->[1];

    my $mode_type;
    my $lock_unlock;

    if ($raw_mode & Fcntl::LOCK_EX() ) {
        $lock_unlock = "lock";
        $mode_type = "for exclusive access";
    }
    elsif ($raw_mode & Fcntl::LOCK_SH() ) {
        $lock_unlock = "lock";
        $mode_type = "for shared access";
    }
    elsif ($raw_mode & Fcntl::LOCK_UN() ) {
        $lock_unlock = "unlock";
        $mode_type = "";
    }
    else {
        # I've got no idea what they're trying to do.
        $lock_unlock = "lock";
        $mode_type = "with mode $raw_mode";
    }

    my $cooked_filehandle;

    if ($filehandle and not ref $filehandle) {

        # A package filehandle with a name!

        $cooked_filehandle = " $filehandle";
    }
    else {
        # Otherwise we have a scalar filehandle.

        $cooked_filehandle = '';

    }

    local $! = $this->errno;

    return "Can't $lock_unlock filehandle$cooked_filehandle $mode_type: $!";

}

# Default formatter for CORE::dbmopen
sub _format_dbmopen {
    my ($this) = @_;
    my @args   = @{$this->args};

    # TODO: Presently, $args flattens out the (usually empty) hash
    # which is passed as the first argument to dbmopen.  This is
    # a bug in our args handling code (taking a reference to it would
    # be better), but for the moment we'll just examine the end of
    # our arguments list for message formatting.

    my $mode = $args[-1];
    my $file = $args[-2];

    # If we have a mask, then display it in octal, not decimal.
    # We don't do this if it already looks octalish, or doesn't
    # look like a number.

    if ($mode =~ /^[^\D0]\d+$/) {
        $mode = sprintf("0%lo", $mode);
    };

    local $! = $this->errno;

    return "Can't dbmopen(%hash, '$file', $mode): '$!'";
}

# Default formatter for CORE::close

sub _format_close {
    my ($this) = @_;
    my $close_arg = $this->args->[0];

    local $! = $this->errno;

    # If we've got an old-style filehandle, mention it.
    if ($close_arg and not ref $close_arg) {
        return "Can't close filehandle '$close_arg': '$!'";
    }

    # TODO - This will probably produce an ugly error.  Test and fix.
    return "Can't close($close_arg) filehandle: '$!'";

}

# Default formatter for CORE::open

use constant _FORMAT_OPEN => "Can't open '%s' for %s: '%s'";

sub _format_open_with_mode {
    my ($this, $mode, $file, $error) = @_;

    my $wordy_mode;

    if    ($mode eq '<')  { $wordy_mode = 'reading';   }
    elsif ($mode eq '>')  { $wordy_mode = 'writing';   }
    elsif ($mode eq '>>') { $wordy_mode = 'appending'; }

    return sprintf _FORMAT_OPEN, $file, $wordy_mode, $error if $wordy_mode;

    Carp::confess("Internal autodie::exception error: Don't know how to format mode '$mode'.");

}

sub _format_open {
    my ($this) = @_;

    my @open_args = @{$this->args};

    # Use the default formatter for single-arg and many-arg open
    if (@open_args <= 1 or @open_args >= 4) {
        return $this->format_default;
    }

    # For two arg open, we have to extract the mode
    if (@open_args == 2) {
        my ($fh, $file) = @open_args;

        if (ref($fh) eq "GLOB") {
            $fh = '$fh';
        }

        my ($mode) = $file =~ m{
                        ^\s*                # Spaces before mode
                        (
                                (?>             # Non-backtracking subexp.
                                        <           # Reading
                                        |>>?        # Writing/appending
                                )
                        )
                        [^&]                # Not an ampersand (which means a dup)
                }x;

        if (not $mode) {
            # Maybe it's a 2-arg open without any mode at all?
            # Detect the most simple case for this, where our
            # file consists only of word characters.

            if ( $file =~ m{^\s*\w+\s*$} ) {
                $mode = '<'
            }
            else {
                # Otherwise, we've got no idea what's going on.
                # Use the default.
                return $this->format_default;
            }
        }

        # Localising $! means perl make make it a pretty error for us.
        local $! = $this->errno;

        return $this->_format_open_with_mode($mode, $file, $!);
    }

    # Here we must be using three arg open.

    my $file = $open_args[2];

    local $! = $this->errno;

    my $mode = $open_args[1];

    local $@;

    my $msg = eval { $this->_format_open_with_mode($mode, $file, $!); };

    return $msg if $msg;

    # Default message (for pipes and odd things)

    return "Can't open '$file' with mode '$open_args[1]': '$!'";
}

sub register {
    my ($class, $symbol, $handler) = @_;

    croak "Incorrect call to autodie::register" if @_ != 3;

    $formatter_of{$symbol} = $handler;

}

# Simply produces the file and line number; intended to be added
# to the end of error messages.

sub add_file_and_line {
    my ($this) = @_;

    return sprintf(" at %s line %d\n", $this->file, $this->line);
}

sub stringify {
    my ($this) = @_;

    my $call        =  $this->function;

    if ($DEBUG) {
        my $dying_pkg   = $this->package;
        my $sub   = $this->function;
        my $caller = $this->caller;
        warn "Stringifing exception for $dying_pkg :: $sub / $caller / $call\n";
    }

    # TODO - This isn't using inheritance.  Should it?
    if ( my $sub = $formatter_of{$call} ) {
        return $sub->($this) . $this->add_file_and_line;
    }

    return $this->format_default . $this->add_file_and_line;

}

# TODO: This produces ugly errors.  Is there any way we can
# dig around to find the actual variable names?  I know perl 5.10
# does some dark and terrible magicks to find them for undef warnings.

sub format_default {
    my ($this) = @_;

    my $call        =  $this->function;

    local $! = $this->errno;

    # TODO: This is probably a good idea for CORE, is it
    # a good idea for other subs?

    # Trim package name off dying sub for error messages.
    $call =~ s/.*:://;

    # Walk through all our arguments, and...
    #
    #   * Replace undef with the word 'undef'
    #   * Replace globs with the string '$fh'
    #   * Quote all other args.

    my @args = @{ $this->args() };

    foreach my $arg (@args) {
       if    (not defined($arg))   { $arg = 'undef' }
       elsif (ref($arg) eq "GLOB") { $arg = '$fh'   }
       else                        { $arg = qq{'$arg'} }
    }

    # Format our beautiful error.

    return "Can't $call(".  join(q{, }, @args) . "): $!" ;

    # TODO - Handle user-defined errors from hash.

    # TODO - Handle default error messages.

}

sub new {
    my ($class, @args) = @_;

    my $this = {};

    bless($this,$class);

    # I'd love to use EVERY here, but it causes our code to die
    # because it wants to stringify our objects before they're
    # initialised, causing everything to explode.

    $this->_init(@args);

    return $this;
}

sub _init {

    my ($this, %args) = @_;

    # Capturing errno here is not necessarily reliable.
    my $original_errno = $!;

    our $init_called = 1;

    my $class = ref $this;

    # We're going to walk up our call stack, looking for the
    # first thing that doesn't look like our exception
    # code, autodie/Fatal, or some whacky eval.

    my ($package, $file, $line, $sub);

    my $depth = 0;

    while (1) {
        $depth++;

        ($package, $file, $line, $sub) = CORE::caller($depth);

        # Skip up the call stack until we find something outside
        # of the Fatal/autodie/eval space.

        next if $package->isa('Fatal');
        next if $package->isa($class);
        next if $package->isa(__PACKAGE__);
        next if $file =~ /^\(eval\s\d+\)$/;

        last;

    }

    # We now have everything correct, *except* for our subroutine
    # name.  If it's __ANON__ or (eval), then we need to keep on
    # digging deeper into our stack to find the real name.  However we
    # don't update our other information, since that will be correct
    # for our current exception.

    my $first_guess_subroutine = $sub;

    while (defined $sub and $sub =~ /^\(eval\)$|::__ANON__$/) {
        $depth++;

        $sub = (CORE::caller($depth))[3];
    }

    # If we end up falling out the bottom of our stack, then our
    # __ANON__ guess is the best we can get.  This includes situations
    # where we were called from the top level of a program.

    if (not defined $sub) {
        $sub = $first_guess_subroutine;
    }

    $this->{$PACKAGE}{package} = $package;
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{file}    = $file;
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{line}    = $line;
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{caller}  = $sub;
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{package} = $package;

    $this->{$PACKAGE}{errno}   = $args{errno} || 0;

    $this->{$PACKAGE}{context} = $args{context};
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{return}  = $args{return};
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{eval_error}  = $args{eval_error};

    $this->{$PACKAGE}{args}    = $args{args} || [];
    $this->{$PACKAGE}{function}= $args{function} or
              croak("$class->new() called without function arg");

    return $this;

}

1;

__END__