Re: Re: Wouldn't Exception::getContext() be useful?

Just for debugging. I've been mulling over how to improve exception/error handling in Drupal 8 out of the box. On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 October 2017 11:41:46 BST, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de> > wrote: > >On 21.10.2017 at 09:20, Michael Morris wrote: > > > >> Right now the only way I know of to see the context of an exception > >throw > >> is to pass it in.. > >> > >> throw new CustomException(get_definted_vars()); > >> > >> It would be very useful to have exceptions just have this as a > >method. > >> set_error_handle had this ability, but it's now deprecated. I'm > >guessing > >> there's an engine reason why this hasn't happened because it seems > >like a > >> pretty obvious include to the default methods of the Exception and > >Error > >> objects. > > > >Quite likely the same reasoning as for deprecating the $errcontext > >argument applies, see > ><https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_7_2# > errcontext_argument_of_error_handler>. > > > See also my posts about the problems of capturing arguments in the > exception's backtrace (sorry, don't have an archive link to hand). > Basically, holding references to objects without user interaction makes > object lifetimes unpredictable and serialization unexpectedly fail. > > Did you just want this for debugging, or was there some other use case? > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >