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a0d0e21e | 1 | package Carp; |
8c3d9721 | 2 | |
634ff085 | 3 | { use 5.006; } |
01ca8b68 DR |
4 | use strict; |
5 | use warnings; | |
6 | ||
40c2103f Z |
7 | BEGIN { |
8 | no strict "refs"; | |
9 | if(exists($::{"utf8::"}) && exists($utf8::{"is_utf8"}) && | |
10 | defined(*{"utf8::is_utf8"}{CODE})) { | |
11 | *is_utf8 = \&{"utf8::is_utf8"}; | |
12 | } else { | |
13 | *is_utf8 = sub { 0 }; | |
14 | } | |
15 | } | |
16 | ||
17 | BEGIN { | |
18 | no strict "refs"; | |
19 | if(exists($::{"utf8::"}) && exists($utf8::{"downgrade"}) && | |
20 | defined(*{"utf8::downgrade"}{CODE})) { | |
21 | *downgrade = \&{"utf8::downgrade"}; | |
22 | } else { | |
23 | *downgrade = sub {}; | |
24 | } | |
25 | } | |
26 | ||
0ae11017 | 27 | our $VERSION = '1.24'; |
b75c8c73 | 28 | |
8c3d9721 DM |
29 | our $MaxEvalLen = 0; |
30 | our $Verbose = 0; | |
31 | our $CarpLevel = 0; | |
d38ea511 DR |
32 | our $MaxArgLen = 64; # How much of each argument to print. 0 = all. |
33 | our $MaxArgNums = 8; # How many arguments to print. 0 = all. | |
748a9306 | 34 | |
a0d0e21e | 35 | require Exporter; |
d38ea511 DR |
36 | our @ISA = ('Exporter'); |
37 | our @EXPORT = qw(confess croak carp); | |
8c3d9721 | 38 | our @EXPORT_OK = qw(cluck verbose longmess shortmess); |
d38ea511 | 39 | our @EXPORT_FAIL = qw(verbose); # hook to enable verbose mode |
af80c6a7 | 40 | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
41 | # The members of %Internal are packages that are internal to perl. |
42 | # Carp will not report errors from within these packages if it | |
43 | # can. The members of %CarpInternal are internal to Perl's warning | |
44 | # system. Carp will not report errors from within these packages | |
45 | # either, and will not report calls *to* these packages for carp and | |
46 | # croak. They replace $CarpLevel, which is deprecated. The | |
47 | # $Max(EvalLen|(Arg(Len|Nums)) variables are used to specify how the eval | |
48 | # text and function arguments should be formatted when printed. | |
49 | ||
01ca8b68 DR |
50 | our %CarpInternal; |
51 | our %Internal; | |
52 | ||
ba7a4549 RGS |
53 | # disable these by default, so they can live w/o require Carp |
54 | $CarpInternal{Carp}++; | |
55 | $CarpInternal{warnings}++; | |
56 | $Internal{Exporter}++; | |
57 | $Internal{'Exporter::Heavy'}++; | |
58 | ||
af80c6a7 JH |
59 | # if the caller specifies verbose usage ("perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl") |
60 | # then the following method will be called by the Exporter which knows | |
61 | # to do this thanks to @EXPORT_FAIL, above. $_[1] will contain the word | |
62 | # 'verbose'. | |
63 | ||
29ddba3b | 64 | sub export_fail { shift; $Verbose = shift if $_[0] eq 'verbose'; @_ } |
7b8d334a | 65 | |
01ca8b68 DR |
66 | sub _cgc { |
67 | no strict 'refs'; | |
68 | return \&{"CORE::GLOBAL::caller"} if defined &{"CORE::GLOBAL::caller"}; | |
69 | return; | |
70 | } | |
71 | ||
ba7a4549 RGS |
72 | sub longmess { |
73 | # Icky backwards compatibility wrapper. :-( | |
74 | # | |
75 | # The story is that the original implementation hard-coded the | |
76 | # number of call levels to go back, so calls to longmess were off | |
77 | # by one. Other code began calling longmess and expecting this | |
78 | # behaviour, so the replacement has to emulate that behaviour. | |
01ca8b68 DR |
79 | my $cgc = _cgc(); |
80 | my $call_pack = $cgc ? $cgc->() : caller(); | |
d38ea511 DR |
81 | if ( $Internal{$call_pack} or $CarpInternal{$call_pack} ) { |
82 | return longmess_heavy(@_); | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
83 | } |
84 | else { | |
d38ea511 DR |
85 | local $CarpLevel = $CarpLevel + 1; |
86 | return longmess_heavy(@_); | |
ba7a4549 | 87 | } |
d38ea511 | 88 | } |
ba7a4549 | 89 | |
01ca8b68 | 90 | our @CARP_NOT; |
d38ea511 | 91 | |
ba7a4549 | 92 | sub shortmess { |
01ca8b68 | 93 | my $cgc = _cgc(); |
d38ea511 | 94 | |
ba7a4549 | 95 | # Icky backwards compatibility wrapper. :-( |
01ca8b68 | 96 | local @CARP_NOT = $cgc ? $cgc->() : caller(); |
ba7a4549 | 97 | shortmess_heavy(@_); |
d38ea511 | 98 | } |
7b8d334a | 99 | |
d38ea511 DR |
100 | sub croak { die shortmess @_ } |
101 | sub confess { die longmess @_ } | |
7b8d334a | 102 | sub carp { warn shortmess @_ } |
d38ea511 | 103 | sub cluck { warn longmess @_ } |
a0d0e21e | 104 | |
40c2103f Z |
105 | BEGIN { |
106 | if("$]" >= 5.015002 || ("$]" >= 5.014002 && "$]" < 5.015) || | |
107 | ("$]" >= 5.012005 && "$]" < 5.013)) { | |
108 | *CALLER_OVERRIDE_CHECK_OK = sub () { 1 }; | |
109 | } else { | |
110 | *CALLER_OVERRIDE_CHECK_OK = sub () { 0 }; | |
111 | } | |
112 | } | |
113 | ||
ba7a4549 | 114 | sub caller_info { |
d38ea511 DR |
115 | my $i = shift(@_) + 1; |
116 | my %call_info; | |
117 | my $cgc = _cgc(); | |
118 | { | |
40c2103f Z |
119 | # Some things override caller() but forget to implement the |
120 | # @DB::args part of it, which we need. We check for this by | |
121 | # pre-populating @DB::args with a sentinel which no-one else | |
122 | # has the address of, so that we can detect whether @DB::args | |
123 | # has been properly populated. However, on earlier versions | |
124 | # of perl this check tickles a bug in CORE::caller() which | |
125 | # leaks memory. So we only check on fixed perls. | |
126 | @DB::args = \$i if CALLER_OVERRIDE_CHECK_OK; | |
d38ea511 | 127 | package DB; |
d38ea511 DR |
128 | @call_info{ |
129 | qw(pack file line sub has_args wantarray evaltext is_require) } | |
130 | = $cgc ? $cgc->($i) : caller($i); | |
eff7e72c | 131 | } |
d38ea511 DR |
132 | |
133 | unless ( defined $call_info{pack} ) { | |
134 | return (); | |
135 | } | |
136 | ||
137 | my $sub_name = Carp::get_subname( \%call_info ); | |
138 | if ( $call_info{has_args} ) { | |
139 | my @args; | |
40c2103f | 140 | if (CALLER_OVERRIDE_CHECK_OK && @DB::args == 1 |
d38ea511 DR |
141 | && ref $DB::args[0] eq ref \$i |
142 | && $DB::args[0] == \$i ) { | |
143 | @DB::args = (); # Don't let anyone see the address of $i | |
144 | local $@; | |
145 | my $where = eval { | |
146 | my $func = $cgc or return ''; | |
1a6d5308 FC |
147 | my $gv = |
148 | *{ | |
149 | ( $::{"B::"} || return '') # B stash | |
150 | ->{svref_2object} || return '' # entry in stash | |
151 | }{CODE} # coderef in entry | |
152 | ->($func)->GV; | |
d38ea511 DR |
153 | my $package = $gv->STASH->NAME; |
154 | my $subname = $gv->NAME; | |
155 | return unless defined $package && defined $subname; | |
156 | ||
157 | # returning CORE::GLOBAL::caller isn't useful for tracing the cause: | |
158 | return if $package eq 'CORE::GLOBAL' && $subname eq 'caller'; | |
159 | " in &${package}::$subname"; | |
634ff085 | 160 | } || ''; |
d38ea511 DR |
161 | @args |
162 | = "** Incomplete caller override detected$where; \@DB::args were not set **"; | |
163 | } | |
164 | else { | |
165 | @args = map { Carp::format_arg($_) } @DB::args; | |
166 | } | |
167 | if ( $MaxArgNums and @args > $MaxArgNums ) | |
168 | { # More than we want to show? | |
169 | $#args = $MaxArgNums; | |
170 | push @args, '...'; | |
171 | } | |
172 | ||
173 | # Push the args onto the subroutine | |
174 | $sub_name .= '(' . join( ', ', @args ) . ')'; | |
ba7a4549 | 175 | } |
d38ea511 DR |
176 | $call_info{sub_name} = $sub_name; |
177 | return wantarray() ? %call_info : \%call_info; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
178 | } |
179 | ||
180 | # Transform an argument to a function into a string. | |
181 | sub format_arg { | |
d38ea511 DR |
182 | my $arg = shift; |
183 | if ( ref($arg) ) { | |
184 | $arg = defined($overload::VERSION) ? overload::StrVal($arg) : "$arg"; | |
185 | } | |
186 | if ( defined($arg) ) { | |
187 | $arg =~ s/'/\\'/g; | |
188 | $arg = str_len_trim( $arg, $MaxArgLen ); | |
189 | ||
190 | # Quote it? | |
634ff085 Z |
191 | # Downgrade, and use [0-9] rather than \d, to avoid loading |
192 | # Unicode tables, which would be liable to fail if we're | |
193 | # processing a syntax error. | |
40c2103f | 194 | downgrade($arg, 1); |
018c7c82 | 195 | $arg = "'$arg'" unless $arg =~ /^-?[0-9.]+\z/; |
634ff085 Z |
196 | } |
197 | else { | |
d38ea511 DR |
198 | $arg = 'undef'; |
199 | } | |
200 | ||
201 | # The following handling of "control chars" is direct from | |
202 | # the original code - it is broken on Unicode though. | |
203 | # Suggestions? | |
40c2103f | 204 | is_utf8($arg) |
d38ea511 DR |
205 | or $arg =~ s/([[:cntrl:]]|[[:^ascii:]])/sprintf("\\x{%x}",ord($1))/eg; |
206 | return $arg; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
207 | } |
208 | ||
209 | # Takes an inheritance cache and a package and returns | |
210 | # an anon hash of known inheritances and anon array of | |
211 | # inheritances which consequences have not been figured | |
212 | # for. | |
213 | sub get_status { | |
214 | my $cache = shift; | |
d38ea511 DR |
215 | my $pkg = shift; |
216 | $cache->{$pkg} ||= [ { $pkg => $pkg }, [ trusts_directly($pkg) ] ]; | |
217 | return @{ $cache->{$pkg} }; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
218 | } |
219 | ||
220 | # Takes the info from caller() and figures out the name of | |
221 | # the sub/require/eval | |
222 | sub get_subname { | |
d38ea511 DR |
223 | my $info = shift; |
224 | if ( defined( $info->{evaltext} ) ) { | |
225 | my $eval = $info->{evaltext}; | |
226 | if ( $info->{is_require} ) { | |
227 | return "require $eval"; | |
228 | } | |
229 | else { | |
230 | $eval =~ s/([\\\'])/\\$1/g; | |
231 | return "eval '" . str_len_trim( $eval, $MaxEvalLen ) . "'"; | |
232 | } | |
ba7a4549 | 233 | } |
ba7a4549 | 234 | |
d38ea511 | 235 | return ( $info->{sub} eq '(eval)' ) ? 'eval {...}' : $info->{sub}; |
ba7a4549 RGS |
236 | } |
237 | ||
238 | # Figures out what call (from the point of view of the caller) | |
239 | # the long error backtrace should start at. | |
240 | sub long_error_loc { | |
d38ea511 DR |
241 | my $i; |
242 | my $lvl = $CarpLevel; | |
243 | { | |
244 | ++$i; | |
245 | my $cgc = _cgc(); | |
246 | my $pkg = $cgc ? $cgc->($i) : caller($i); | |
247 | unless ( defined($pkg) ) { | |
248 | ||
249 | # This *shouldn't* happen. | |
250 | if (%Internal) { | |
251 | local %Internal; | |
252 | $i = long_error_loc(); | |
253 | last; | |
254 | } | |
255 | else { | |
256 | ||
257 | # OK, now I am irritated. | |
258 | return 2; | |
259 | } | |
260 | } | |
261 | redo if $CarpInternal{$pkg}; | |
262 | redo unless 0 > --$lvl; | |
263 | redo if $Internal{$pkg}; | |
ba7a4549 | 264 | } |
d38ea511 | 265 | return $i - 1; |
ba7a4549 RGS |
266 | } |
267 | ||
ba7a4549 | 268 | sub longmess_heavy { |
d38ea511 DR |
269 | return @_ if ref( $_[0] ); # don't break references as exceptions |
270 | my $i = long_error_loc(); | |
271 | return ret_backtrace( $i, @_ ); | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
272 | } |
273 | ||
274 | # Returns a full stack backtrace starting from where it is | |
275 | # told. | |
276 | sub ret_backtrace { | |
d38ea511 DR |
277 | my ( $i, @error ) = @_; |
278 | my $mess; | |
279 | my $err = join '', @error; | |
280 | $i++; | |
281 | ||
282 | my $tid_msg = ''; | |
283 | if ( defined &threads::tid ) { | |
284 | my $tid = threads->tid; | |
285 | $tid_msg = " thread $tid" if $tid; | |
286 | } | |
287 | ||
288 | my %i = caller_info($i); | |
89988fbd TL |
289 | $mess = "$err at $i{file} line $i{line}$tid_msg"; |
290 | if( defined $. ) { | |
291 | local $@ = ''; | |
63a756fa | 292 | local $SIG{__DIE__}; |
89988fbd TL |
293 | eval { |
294 | die; | |
295 | }; | |
296 | if($@ =~ /^Died at .*(, <.*?> line \d+).$/ ) { | |
297 | $mess .= $1; | |
298 | } | |
299 | } | |
300 | $mess .= "\n"; | |
d38ea511 DR |
301 | |
302 | while ( my %i = caller_info( ++$i ) ) { | |
303 | $mess .= "\t$i{sub_name} called at $i{file} line $i{line}$tid_msg\n"; | |
304 | } | |
305 | ||
306 | return $mess; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
307 | } |
308 | ||
309 | sub ret_summary { | |
d38ea511 DR |
310 | my ( $i, @error ) = @_; |
311 | my $err = join '', @error; | |
312 | $i++; | |
ba7a4549 | 313 | |
d38ea511 DR |
314 | my $tid_msg = ''; |
315 | if ( defined &threads::tid ) { | |
316 | my $tid = threads->tid; | |
317 | $tid_msg = " thread $tid" if $tid; | |
318 | } | |
ba7a4549 | 319 | |
d38ea511 DR |
320 | my %i = caller_info($i); |
321 | return "$err at $i{file} line $i{line}$tid_msg\n"; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
322 | } |
323 | ||
d38ea511 DR |
324 | sub short_error_loc { |
325 | # You have to create your (hash)ref out here, rather than defaulting it | |
326 | # inside trusts *on a lexical*, as you want it to persist across calls. | |
327 | # (You can default it on $_[2], but that gets messy) | |
328 | my $cache = {}; | |
329 | my $i = 1; | |
330 | my $lvl = $CarpLevel; | |
331 | { | |
332 | my $cgc = _cgc(); | |
333 | my $called = $cgc ? $cgc->($i) : caller($i); | |
334 | $i++; | |
335 | my $caller = $cgc ? $cgc->($i) : caller($i); | |
336 | ||
337 | return 0 unless defined($caller); # What happened? | |
338 | redo if $Internal{$caller}; | |
339 | redo if $CarpInternal{$caller}; | |
340 | redo if $CarpInternal{$called}; | |
341 | redo if trusts( $called, $caller, $cache ); | |
342 | redo if trusts( $caller, $called, $cache ); | |
343 | redo unless 0 > --$lvl; | |
344 | } | |
345 | return $i - 1; | |
346 | } | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
347 | |
348 | sub shortmess_heavy { | |
d38ea511 DR |
349 | return longmess_heavy(@_) if $Verbose; |
350 | return @_ if ref( $_[0] ); # don't break references as exceptions | |
351 | my $i = short_error_loc(); | |
352 | if ($i) { | |
353 | ret_summary( $i, @_ ); | |
354 | } | |
355 | else { | |
356 | longmess_heavy(@_); | |
357 | } | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
358 | } |
359 | ||
360 | # If a string is too long, trims it with ... | |
361 | sub str_len_trim { | |
d38ea511 DR |
362 | my $str = shift; |
363 | my $max = shift || 0; | |
364 | if ( 2 < $max and $max < length($str) ) { | |
365 | substr( $str, $max - 3 ) = '...'; | |
366 | } | |
367 | return $str; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
368 | } |
369 | ||
370 | # Takes two packages and an optional cache. Says whether the | |
371 | # first inherits from the second. | |
372 | # | |
373 | # Recursive versions of this have to work to avoid certain | |
374 | # possible endless loops, and when following long chains of | |
375 | # inheritance are less efficient. | |
376 | sub trusts { | |
d38ea511 | 377 | my $child = shift; |
ba7a4549 | 378 | my $parent = shift; |
d38ea511 DR |
379 | my $cache = shift; |
380 | my ( $known, $partial ) = get_status( $cache, $child ); | |
381 | ||
ba7a4549 | 382 | # Figure out consequences until we have an answer |
d38ea511 | 383 | while ( @$partial and not exists $known->{$parent} ) { |
ba7a4549 RGS |
384 | my $anc = shift @$partial; |
385 | next if exists $known->{$anc}; | |
386 | $known->{$anc}++; | |
d38ea511 | 387 | my ( $anc_knows, $anc_partial ) = get_status( $cache, $anc ); |
ba7a4549 RGS |
388 | my @found = keys %$anc_knows; |
389 | @$known{@found} = (); | |
390 | push @$partial, @$anc_partial; | |
391 | } | |
392 | return exists $known->{$parent}; | |
393 | } | |
394 | ||
395 | # Takes a package and gives a list of those trusted directly | |
396 | sub trusts_directly { | |
397 | my $class = shift; | |
398 | no strict 'refs'; | |
d38ea511 | 399 | no warnings 'once'; |
ba7a4549 | 400 | return @{"$class\::CARP_NOT"} |
d38ea511 DR |
401 | ? @{"$class\::CARP_NOT"} |
402 | : @{"$class\::ISA"}; | |
ba7a4549 RGS |
403 | } |
404 | ||
748a9306 | 405 | 1; |
ba7a4549 | 406 | |
0cda2667 DM |
407 | __END__ |
408 | ||
409 | =head1 NAME | |
410 | ||
aaca3d9d | 411 | Carp - alternative warn and die for modules |
0cda2667 | 412 | |
0cda2667 DM |
413 | =head1 SYNOPSIS |
414 | ||
415 | use Carp; | |
aaca3d9d MS |
416 | |
417 | # warn user (from perspective of caller) | |
418 | carp "string trimmed to 80 chars"; | |
419 | ||
420 | # die of errors (from perspective of caller) | |
0cda2667 DM |
421 | croak "We're outta here!"; |
422 | ||
aaca3d9d MS |
423 | # die of errors with stack backtrace |
424 | confess "not implemented"; | |
425 | ||
426 | # cluck not exported by default | |
0cda2667 DM |
427 | use Carp qw(cluck); |
428 | cluck "This is how we got here!"; | |
429 | ||
0cda2667 DM |
430 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
431 | ||
432 | The Carp routines are useful in your own modules because | |
433 | they act like die() or warn(), but with a message which is more | |
434 | likely to be useful to a user of your module. In the case of | |
435 | cluck, confess, and longmess that context is a summary of every | |
d735c2ef BT |
436 | call in the call-stack. For a shorter message you can use C<carp> |
437 | or C<croak> which report the error as being from where your module | |
438 | was called. There is no guarantee that that is where the error | |
439 | was, but it is a good educated guess. | |
0cda2667 DM |
440 | |
441 | You can also alter the way the output and logic of C<Carp> works, by | |
442 | changing some global variables in the C<Carp> namespace. See the | |
443 | section on C<GLOBAL VARIABLES> below. | |
444 | ||
3b46207f | 445 | Here is a more complete description of how C<carp> and C<croak> work. |
d735c2ef BT |
446 | What they do is search the call-stack for a function call stack where |
447 | they have not been told that there shouldn't be an error. If every | |
448 | call is marked safe, they give up and give a full stack backtrace | |
449 | instead. In other words they presume that the first likely looking | |
450 | potential suspect is guilty. Their rules for telling whether | |
0cda2667 DM |
451 | a call shouldn't generate errors work as follows: |
452 | ||
453 | =over 4 | |
454 | ||
455 | =item 1. | |
456 | ||
457 | Any call from a package to itself is safe. | |
458 | ||
459 | =item 2. | |
460 | ||
461 | Packages claim that there won't be errors on calls to or from | |
d735c2ef BT |
462 | packages explicitly marked as safe by inclusion in C<@CARP_NOT>, or |
463 | (if that array is empty) C<@ISA>. The ability to override what | |
0cda2667 DM |
464 | @ISA says is new in 5.8. |
465 | ||
466 | =item 3. | |
467 | ||
468 | The trust in item 2 is transitive. If A trusts B, and B | |
d735c2ef BT |
469 | trusts C, then A trusts C. So if you do not override C<@ISA> |
470 | with C<@CARP_NOT>, then this trust relationship is identical to, | |
0cda2667 DM |
471 | "inherits from". |
472 | ||
473 | =item 4. | |
474 | ||
475 | Any call from an internal Perl module is safe. (Nothing keeps | |
476 | user modules from marking themselves as internal to Perl, but | |
477 | this practice is discouraged.) | |
478 | ||
479 | =item 5. | |
480 | ||
d735c2ef BT |
481 | Any call to Perl's warning system (eg Carp itself) is safe. |
482 | (This rule is what keeps it from reporting the error at the | |
483 | point where you call C<carp> or C<croak>.) | |
484 | ||
485 | =item 6. | |
486 | ||
487 | C<$Carp::CarpLevel> can be set to skip a fixed number of additional | |
488 | call levels. Using this is not recommended because it is very | |
489 | difficult to get it to behave correctly. | |
0cda2667 DM |
490 | |
491 | =back | |
492 | ||
493 | =head2 Forcing a Stack Trace | |
494 | ||
495 | As a debugging aid, you can force Carp to treat a croak as a confess | |
496 | and a carp as a cluck across I<all> modules. In other words, force a | |
497 | detailed stack trace to be given. This can be very helpful when trying | |
498 | to understand why, or from where, a warning or error is being generated. | |
499 | ||
500 | This feature is enabled by 'importing' the non-existent symbol | |
501 | 'verbose'. You would typically enable it by saying | |
502 | ||
503 | perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl | |
504 | ||
11ed4d01 | 505 | or by including the string C<-MCarp=verbose> in the PERL5OPT |
0cda2667 DM |
506 | environment variable. |
507 | ||
508 | Alternately, you can set the global variable C<$Carp::Verbose> to true. | |
509 | See the C<GLOBAL VARIABLES> section below. | |
510 | ||
511 | =head1 GLOBAL VARIABLES | |
512 | ||
0cda2667 DM |
513 | =head2 $Carp::MaxEvalLen |
514 | ||
515 | This variable determines how many characters of a string-eval are to | |
516 | be shown in the output. Use a value of C<0> to show all text. | |
517 | ||
518 | Defaults to C<0>. | |
519 | ||
520 | =head2 $Carp::MaxArgLen | |
521 | ||
522 | This variable determines how many characters of each argument to a | |
523 | function to print. Use a value of C<0> to show the full length of the | |
524 | argument. | |
525 | ||
526 | Defaults to C<64>. | |
527 | ||
528 | =head2 $Carp::MaxArgNums | |
529 | ||
530 | This variable determines how many arguments to each function to show. | |
531 | Use a value of C<0> to show all arguments to a function call. | |
532 | ||
533 | Defaults to C<8>. | |
534 | ||
535 | =head2 $Carp::Verbose | |
536 | ||
23fab7a5 | 537 | This variable makes C<carp> and C<croak> generate stack backtraces |
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538 | just like C<cluck> and C<confess>. This is how C<use Carp 'verbose'> |
539 | is implemented internally. | |
540 | ||
541 | Defaults to C<0>. | |
542 | ||
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543 | =head2 @CARP_NOT |
544 | ||
545 | This variable, I<in your package>, says which packages are I<not> to be | |
546 | considered as the location of an error. The C<carp()> and C<cluck()> | |
547 | functions will skip over callers when reporting where an error occurred. | |
548 | ||
549 | NB: This variable must be in the package's symbol table, thus: | |
550 | ||
551 | # These work | |
552 | our @CARP_NOT; # file scope | |
553 | use vars qw(@CARP_NOT); # package scope | |
554 | @My::Package::CARP_NOT = ... ; # explicit package variable | |
555 | ||
556 | # These don't work | |
557 | sub xyz { ... @CARP_NOT = ... } # w/o declarations above | |
558 | my @CARP_NOT; # even at top-level | |
559 | ||
560 | Example of use: | |
561 | ||
562 | package My::Carping::Package; | |
563 | use Carp; | |
564 | our @CARP_NOT; | |
565 | sub bar { .... or _error('Wrong input') } | |
566 | sub _error { | |
567 | # temporary control of where'ness, __PACKAGE__ is implicit | |
568 | local @CARP_NOT = qw(My::Friendly::Caller); | |
569 | carp(@_) | |
570 | } | |
571 | ||
572 | This would make C<Carp> report the error as coming from a caller not | |
573 | in C<My::Carping::Package>, nor from C<My::Friendly::Caller>. | |
574 | ||
345e2394 | 575 | Also read the L</DESCRIPTION> section above, about how C<Carp> decides |
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576 | where the error is reported from. |
577 | ||
578 | Use C<@CARP_NOT>, instead of C<$Carp::CarpLevel>. | |
579 | ||
580 | Overrides C<Carp>'s use of C<@ISA>. | |
581 | ||
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582 | =head2 %Carp::Internal |
583 | ||
584 | This says what packages are internal to Perl. C<Carp> will never | |
585 | report an error as being from a line in a package that is internal to | |
586 | Perl. For example: | |
587 | ||
2a6a7022 | 588 | $Carp::Internal{ (__PACKAGE__) }++; |
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589 | # time passes... |
590 | sub foo { ... or confess("whatever") }; | |
591 | ||
592 | would give a full stack backtrace starting from the first caller | |
593 | outside of __PACKAGE__. (Unless that package was also internal to | |
594 | Perl.) | |
595 | ||
596 | =head2 %Carp::CarpInternal | |
597 | ||
598 | This says which packages are internal to Perl's warning system. For | |
599 | generating a full stack backtrace this is the same as being internal | |
600 | to Perl, the stack backtrace will not start inside packages that are | |
601 | listed in C<%Carp::CarpInternal>. But it is slightly different for | |
602 | the summary message generated by C<carp> or C<croak>. There errors | |
603 | will not be reported on any lines that are calling packages in | |
604 | C<%Carp::CarpInternal>. | |
605 | ||
606 | For example C<Carp> itself is listed in C<%Carp::CarpInternal>. | |
607 | Therefore the full stack backtrace from C<confess> will not start | |
608 | inside of C<Carp>, and the short message from calling C<croak> is | |
609 | not placed on the line where C<croak> was called. | |
610 | ||
611 | =head2 $Carp::CarpLevel | |
0cda2667 | 612 | |
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613 | This variable determines how many additional call frames are to be |
614 | skipped that would not otherwise be when reporting where an error | |
615 | occurred on a call to one of C<Carp>'s functions. It is fairly easy | |
616 | to count these call frames on calls that generate a full stack | |
617 | backtrace. However it is much harder to do this accounting for calls | |
618 | that generate a short message. Usually people skip too many call | |
619 | frames. If they are lucky they skip enough that C<Carp> goes all of | |
620 | the way through the call stack, realizes that something is wrong, and | |
621 | then generates a full stack backtrace. If they are unlucky then the | |
622 | error is reported from somewhere misleading very high in the call | |
623 | stack. | |
624 | ||
625 | Therefore it is best to avoid C<$Carp::CarpLevel>. Instead use | |
3b46207f | 626 | C<@CARP_NOT>, C<%Carp::Internal> and C<%Carp::CarpInternal>. |
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627 | |
628 | Defaults to C<0>. | |
629 | ||
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630 | =head1 BUGS |
631 | ||
632 | The Carp routines don't handle exception objects currently. | |
633 | If called with a first argument that is a reference, they simply | |
634 | call die() or warn(), as appropriate. | |
635 | ||
634ff085 Z |
636 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
637 | ||
638 | L<Carp::Always>, | |
639 | L<Carp::Clan> | |
640 | ||
641 | =head1 AUTHOR | |
642 | ||
643 | The Carp module first appeared in Larry Wall's perl 5.000 distribution. | |
644 | Since then it has been modified by several of the perl 5 porters. | |
645 | Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> divested Carp into an independent | |
646 | distribution. | |
647 | ||
648 | =head1 COPYRIGHT | |
649 | ||
650 | Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Larry Wall | |
651 | ||
652 | Copyright (C) 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> | |
653 | ||
654 | =head1 LICENSE | |
655 | ||
656 | This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
657 | under the same terms as Perl itself. |