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Feature #7895

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Exception#backtrace_locations to go with Thread#backtrace_locations and Kernel#caller_locations

Added by headius (Charles Nutter) about 11 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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[ruby-core:52596]

Description

Thread#backtrace_locations and Kernel#caller_locations were added in Ruby 2.0.0, but no equivalent method was added to Exception to get backtrace locations. The String format of Exception#backtrace elements makes it difficult to do any inspection of the actual files and lines it reports, so having backtrace_locations would be very useful.

In #7435 ko1 pointed out that Exception defines set_backtrace, which takes an array (presumably of Strings in the same format as Exception#backtrace) and that this would need to be addressed in order to support backtrace_locations. I propose that if you set_backtrace, you are already breaking the ability to get structured Location elements, so set_backtrace should cause backtrace_locations to return nil or an empty array (probably an empty array, so it can always be expected to be non-nil).

We could consider also adding set_backtrace_locations as a way to set Location elements into the exception.

An example script where backtrace_locations would be very useful is here (avoiding the need to regexp match to get file and line number): https://gist.github.com/headius/4999244


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #8960: Add Exception#backtrace_locationsAssignedko1 (Koichi Sasada)Actions
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