use Devel::StackTrace;
my $trace = Devel::StackTrace->new;
print $trace->as_string; # like carp
# from top (most recent) of stack to bottom.
while ( my $frame = $trace->next_frame ) {
print "Has args\n" if $frame->hasargs;
}
# from bottom (least recent) of stack to top.
while ( my $frame = $trace->prev_frame ) {
print "Sub: ", $frame->subroutine, "\n";
}
The "Devel::StackTrace" object contains a set of "Devel::StackTrace::Frame" objects, one for each level of the stack. The frames contain all the data available from "caller".
This code was created to support my Exception::Class::Base class (part of Exception::Class) but may be useful in other contexts.
Here's an example:
foo(); # bottom frame is here
sub foo {
bar();
}
sub bar {
Devel::StackTrace->new; # top frame is here.
}
Takes the following parameters:
By default, Devel::StackTrace will include all stack frames before the call to its constructor.
However, you may want to filter out some frames with more granularity than 'ignore_package' or 'ignore_class' allow.
You can provide a subroutine which is called with the raw frame data for each frame. This is a hash reference with two keys, ``caller'', and ``args'', both of which are array references. The ``caller'' key is the raw data as returned by Perl's "caller" function, and the ``args'' key are the subroutine arguments found in @DB::args.
The filter should return true if the frame should be included, or false if it should be skipped.
If this parameter is true, "frame_filter" will be called as soon as the stacktrace is created, and before refs are stringified (if "unsafe_ref_capture" is not set), rather than being filtered lazily when Devel::StackTrace::Frame objects are first needed.
This is useful if you want to filter based on the frame's arguments and want to be able to examine object properties, for example.
Any frames where the package is one of these packages will not be on the stack.
Any frames where the package is a subclass of one of these packages (or is the same package) will not be on the stack.
Devel::StackTrace internally adds itself to the 'ignore_package' parameter, meaning that the Devel::StackTrace package is ALWAYS ignored. However, if you create a subclass of Devel::StackTrace it will not be ignored.
This will cause this number of stack frames to be excluded from top of the stack trace. This prevents the frames from being captured at all, and applies before the "frame_filter", "ignore_package", or "ignore_class" options, even with "filter_frames_early".
If this parameter is true, then Devel::StackTrace will store references internally when generating stacktrace frames.
This option is very dangerous, and should never be used with exception objects. Using this option will keep any objects or references alive past their normal lifetime, until the stack trace object goes out of scope. It can keep objects alive even after their "DESTROY" sub is called, resulting it it being called multiple times on the same object.
If not set, Devel::StackTrace replaces any references with their stringified representation.
If this parameter is true, then Devel::StackTrace will not store caller arguments in stack trace frames at all.
By default, Devel::StackTrace will call "overload::AddrRef" to get the underlying string representation of an object, instead of respecting the object's stringification overloading. If you would prefer to see the overloaded representation of objects in stack traces, then set this parameter to true.
By default, Devel::StackTrace will display the entire argument for each subroutine call. Setting this parameter causes truncates each subroutine argument's string representation if it is longer than this number of characters.
By default, Devel::StackTrace will use 'Trace begun' as the message for the first stack frame when you call "as_string". You can supply an alternative message using this option.
If this parameter is true, each stack frame after the first will start with a tab character, just like "Carp::confess".
This method can also be used to set the object's frames if you pass it a list of Devel::StackTrace::Frame objects.
This is useful if you want to filter the list of frames in ways that are more complex than can be handled by the "$trace->filter_frames" method:
$stacktrace->frames( my_filter( $stacktrace->frames ) );
The optional "\%p" parameter only has one option. The "max_arg_length" parameter truncates each subroutine argument's string representation if it is longer than this number of characters.
If all the frames in a trace are skipped then this just returns the "message" passed to the constructor or the string "Trace begun".
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