NAME

Log::Report::Exception - a collected report

SYNOPSIS

# created within a try block
try { error "help!" };
my $exception = $@->wasFatal;
$exception->throw if $exception;

$@->reportFatal;  # combination of above two lines

my $message = $exception->message;   # the Log::Report::Message

if($message->inClass('die')) ...
if($exception->inClass('die')) ...   # same
if($@->wasFatal(class => 'die')) ... # same

DESCRIPTION

In Log::Report, exceptions are not as extended as available in languages as Java: you do not create classes for them. The only thing an exception object does, is capture some information about an (untranslated) report.

METHODS

Constructors

Log::Report::Exception->new(OPTIONS)

-Option     --Default
 message      <required>
 reason       <required>
 report_opts  {}

message => Log::Report::Message

reason => REASON

report_opts => HASH

Accessors

$obj->message

$obj->reason

$obj->report_opts

Processing

$obj->inClass(CLASS|REGEX)

Check whether any of the classes listed in the message match CLASS (string) or the REGEX. This uses Log::Report::Message::inClass().

$obj->throw(OPTIONS)

Insert the message contained in the exception into the currently defined dispatchers. The throw name is commonly known exception related terminology for report.

The OPTIONS overrule the captured options to Log::Report::report(). This can be used to overrule a destination. Also, the reason can be changed.

example: overrule defaults to report

try { print {to => 'stderr'}, ERROR => 'oops!' };
$@->reportFatal(to => 'syslog');

$exception->throw(to => 'syslog');

$@->wasFatal->throw(reason => 'WARNING', is_fatal => 0);

$obj->toString

Prints the reason and the message. Differently from throw(), this only represents the textual content: it does not re-cast the exceptions to higher levels.

example: printing exceptions

print $_->toString for $@->exceptions;
print $_ for $@->exceptions;   # via overloading

OVERLOADING

overload: stringification

Produces "reason: message".

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.91, built on January 26, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2007-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

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