Class Exception
and its subclasses are used to communicate between Kernel#raise
and rescue
statements in begin ... end
blocks.
An Exception
object carries information about an exception:
Its type (the exception's class).
An optional descriptive message.
Optional backtrace information.
Some built-in subclasses of Exception
have additional methods: e.g., NameError#name
.
Two Ruby statements have default exception classes:
raise
: defaults to RuntimeError
.
rescue
: defaults to StandardError
.
When an exception has been raised but not yet handled (in rescue
, ensure
, at_exit
and END
blocks), two global variables are set:
$!
contains the current exception.
$@
contains its backtrace.
To provide additional or alternate information, a program may create custom exception classes that derive from the built-in exception classes.
A good practice is for a library to create a single âgenericâ exception class (typically a subclass of StandardError
or RuntimeError
) and have its other exception classes derive from that class. This allows the user to rescue the generic exception, thus catching all exceptions the library may raise even if future versions of the library add new exception subclasses.
For example:
class MyLibrary class Error < ::StandardError end class WidgetError < Error end class FrobError < Error end end
To handle both MyLibrary::WidgetError and MyLibrary::FrobError the library user can rescue MyLibrary::Error.
Built-InException
Classes¶ ↑
The built-in subclasses of Exception
are:
fatal
exception([string]) → an_exception or exc
With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a message equal to string.to_str
.
json_create(object) click to toggle source
Deserializes JSON
string by constructing new Exception
object with message m
and backtrace b
serialized with to_json
def self.json_create(object) result = new(object['m']) result.set_backtrace object['b'] result end
new(msg = nil) → exception click to toggle source
exception(msg = nil) → exception
Construct a new Exception
object, optionally passing in a message.
static VALUE exc_initialize(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE exc) { VALUE arg; arg = (!rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 1) ? Qnil : argv[0]); return exc_init(exc, arg); }
to_tty? → true or false click to toggle source
Returns true
if exception messages will be sent to a tty.
static VALUE exc_s_to_tty_p(VALUE self) { return rb_stderr_tty_p() ? Qtrue : Qfalse; }Public Instance Methods
exc == obj → true or false click to toggle source
EqualityâIf obj is not an Exception
, returns false
. Otherwise, returns true
if exc and obj share same class, messages, and backtrace.
static VALUE exc_equal(VALUE exc, VALUE obj) { VALUE mesg, backtrace; if (exc == obj) return Qtrue; if (rb_obj_class(exc) != rb_obj_class(obj)) { int state; obj = rb_protect(try_convert_to_exception, obj, &state); if (state || obj == Qundef) { rb_set_errinfo(Qnil); return Qfalse; } if (rb_obj_class(exc) != rb_obj_class(obj)) return Qfalse; mesg = rb_check_funcall(obj, id_message, 0, 0); if (mesg == Qundef) return Qfalse; backtrace = rb_check_funcall(obj, id_backtrace, 0, 0); if (backtrace == Qundef) return Qfalse; } else { mesg = rb_attr_get(obj, id_mesg); backtrace = exc_backtrace(obj); } if (!rb_equal(rb_attr_get(exc, id_mesg), mesg)) return Qfalse; if (!rb_equal(exc_backtrace(exc), backtrace)) return Qfalse; return Qtrue; }
as_json(*) click to toggle source
Returns a hash, that will be turned into a JSON
object and represent this object.
def as_json(*) { JSON.create_id => self.class.name, 'm' => message, 'b' => backtrace, } end
backtrace → array or nil click to toggle source
Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. The backtrace is an array of strings, each containing either âfilename:lineNo: in `method''' or âfilename:lineNo.''
def a raise "boom" end def b a() end begin b() rescue => detail print detail.backtrace.join("\n") end
produces:
prog.rb:2:in `a' prog.rb:6:in `b' prog.rb:10
In the case no backtrace has been set, nil
is returned
ex = StandardError.new ex.backtrace
static VALUE exc_backtrace(VALUE exc) { VALUE obj; obj = rb_attr_get(exc, id_bt); if (rb_backtrace_p(obj)) { obj = rb_backtrace_to_str_ary(obj); /* rb_ivar_set(exc, id_bt, obj); */ } return obj; }
backtrace_locations → array or nil click to toggle source
Returns any backtrace associated with the exception. This method is similar to Exception#backtrace
, but the backtrace is an array of Thread::Backtrace::Location
.
This method is not affected by Exception#set_backtrace()
.
static VALUE exc_backtrace_locations(VALUE exc) { VALUE obj; obj = rb_attr_get(exc, id_bt_locations); if (!NIL_P(obj)) { obj = rb_backtrace_to_location_ary(obj); } return obj; }
cause → an_exception or nil click to toggle source
Returns the previous exception ($!) at the time this exception was raised. This is useful for wrapping exceptions and retaining the original exception information.
static VALUE exc_cause(VALUE exc) { return rb_attr_get(exc, id_cause); }
exception([string]) → an_exception or exc click to toggle source
With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a message equal to string.to_str
.
static VALUE exc_exception(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { VALUE exc; argc = rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 1); if (argc == 0) return self; if (argc == 1 && self == argv[0]) return self; exc = rb_obj_clone(self); rb_ivar_set(exc, id_mesg, argv[0]); return exc; }
full_message(highlight: bool, order: [:top or :bottom]) → string click to toggle source
Returns formatted string of exception. The returned string is formatted using the same format that Ruby uses when printing an uncaught exceptions to stderr.
If highlight is true
the default error handler will send the messages to a tty.
order must be either of :top
or :bottom
, and places the error message and the innermost backtrace come at the top or the bottom.
The default values of these options depend on $stderr
and its tty?
at the timing of a call.
static VALUE exc_full_message(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE exc) { VALUE opt, str, emesg, errat; enum {kw_highlight, kw_order, kw_max_}; static ID kw[kw_max_]; VALUE args[kw_max_] = {Qnil, Qnil}; rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "0:", &opt); if (!NIL_P(opt)) { if (!kw[0]) { #define INIT_KW(n) kw[kw_##n] = rb_intern_const(#n) INIT_KW(highlight); INIT_KW(order); #undef INIT_KW } rb_get_kwargs(opt, kw, 0, kw_max_, args); switch (args[kw_highlight]) { default: rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "expected true or false as " "highlight: %+"PRIsVALUE, args[kw_highlight]); case Qundef: args[kw_highlight] = Qnil; break; case Qtrue: case Qfalse: case Qnil: break; } if (args[kw_order] == Qundef) { args[kw_order] = Qnil; } else { ID id = rb_check_id(&args[kw_order]); if (id == id_bottom) args[kw_order] = Qtrue; else if (id == id_top) args[kw_order] = Qfalse; else { rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "expected :top or :bottom as " "order: %+"PRIsVALUE, args[kw_order]); } } } str = rb_str_new2(""); errat = rb_get_backtrace(exc); emesg = rb_get_message(exc); rb_error_write(exc, emesg, errat, str, args[kw_highlight], args[kw_order]); return str; }
inspect → string click to toggle source
Return this exception's class name and message.
static VALUE exc_inspect(VALUE exc) { VALUE str, klass; klass = CLASS_OF(exc); exc = rb_obj_as_string(exc); if (RSTRING_LEN(exc) == 0) { return rb_class_name(klass); } str = rb_str_buf_new2("#<"); klass = rb_class_name(klass); rb_str_buf_append(str, klass); rb_str_buf_cat(str, ": ", 2); rb_str_buf_append(str, exc); rb_str_buf_cat(str, ">", 1); return str; }
message → string click to toggle source
Returns the result of invoking exception.to_s
. Normally this returns the exception's message or name.
static VALUE exc_message(VALUE exc) { return rb_funcallv(exc, idTo_s, 0, 0); }
set_backtrace(backtrace) → array click to toggle source
Sets the backtrace information associated with exc
. The backtrace
must be an array of String
objects or a single String
in the format described in Exception#backtrace
.
static VALUE exc_set_backtrace(VALUE exc, VALUE bt) { return rb_ivar_set(exc, id_bt, rb_check_backtrace(bt)); }
to_json(*args) click to toggle source
Stores class name (Exception
) with message m
and backtrace array b
as JSON
string
def to_json(*args) as_json.to_json(*args) end
to_s → string click to toggle source
Returns exception's message (or the name of the exception if no message is set).
static VALUE exc_to_s(VALUE exc) { VALUE mesg = rb_attr_get(exc, idMesg); if (NIL_P(mesg)) return rb_class_name(CLASS_OF(exc)); return rb_String(mesg); }
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