Making the hardcoded string length limit of Throwable->getTraceAsString() configurable
| From: | Alex | Date: | Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:56:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Making the hardcoded string length limit of Throwable->getTraceAsString() configurable | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:22 PM tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> By default, strings in parameter lists are truncated to 15 bytes by default in
> Throwable->getTraceAsString()
> (and Throwable->__toString() as a consequence).
> (in Zend/zend_exception.c in
static void _build_trace_args(zval *arg, smart_str
> *str))
>
> This limit is too short to see relevant information such as file paths, full urls, etc, which
> makes reporting bugs in applications inconvenient.
>
> Would there be any interest in an ini setting such as
> exception_string_length_limit as a non-negative value to raise this
> (either allowed to be 0 or more or 15 or more, defaulting to 15)
Just as a suggestion, might it not be simpler just to increase the
limit to something a bit higher than 15?
(Personally, I view the growth of things like .INI parameters with
suspicion. I feel each one should really "carry its weight". But if
this one does, that is fine.)
Alex