I've found that, in general, the stack dumps you get back from Java (into Clojure-land) are pretty unhelpful.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com> wrote: > > test-is' :error implementation for the report method restricts the > printing of caught exceptions' frames to 5. I'm finding it very > inconvenient, as many common exceptions have as their first 5-10 > frames essentially unhelpful source information. For example, a > typical IllegalArgumentException thrown by > clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity: > > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wrong number of args > passed to: namespace$fn > at clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:450) > clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke (RestFn.java:404) > clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper (AFn.java:172) > clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo (RestFn.java:137) > clojure.core$apply__3134.doInvoke (core.clj:382) > clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke (RestFn.java:428) > [.... calling code starts here ....] > > This amount of unhelpful stack frames can go quite high, depending > upon the frameworks one is using as well. > > So, I ask: Is there any particular reason for this? I presume it's for > brevity, but at this point, many of the error reports coming out of > test-is are entirely unhelpful, and there doesn't appear to be any way > backchannel to configure stack trace print depth in > clojure.contrib.stacktrace or test-is. > > FWIW, the fix (IMO) is simple: remove the '5' argument to the call to > stacktrace/print-cause-trace in test-is, which will result in all > stack frames being printed. (I would have provided a patch, but I > thought I'd inquire as to the motivation behind the current behaviour > before opening a ticket, etc.) I suppose some may want to have a > binding to control printed stack trace depth, which would be fine, > too; however, for my part, I would strongly prefer having the default > be Integer/MAX_VALUE or somesuch. > > Thanks, > > - Chas > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
