-- stack trace by SquidDev (MIT License) -- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SquidDev-CC/mbs/master/lib/stack_trace.lua local type = type local debug_traceback = type(debug) == "table" and type(debug.traceback) == "function" and debug.traceback local function traceback(x) -- Attempt to detect error() and error("xyz", 0). -- This probably means they're erroring the program intentionally and so we -- shouldn't display anything. if x == nil or (type(x) == "string" and not x:find(":%d+:")) then return x end if debug_traceback then -- The parens are important, as they prevent a tail call occuring, meaning -- the stack level is preserved. This ensures the code behaves identically -- on LuaJ and PUC Lua. return (debug_traceback(tostring(x), 2)) else local level = 3 local out = { tostring(x), "stack traceback:" } while true do local _, msg = pcall(error, "", level) if msg == "" then break end out[#out + 1] = " " .. msg level = level + 1 end return table.concat(out, "\n") end end local function trim_traceback(target, marker) local ttarget, tmarker = {}, {} for line in target:gmatch("([^\n]*)\n?") do ttarget[#ttarget + 1] = line end for line in marker:gmatch("([^\n]*)\n?") do tmarker[#tmarker + 1] = line end --[[ TODO : fix this trace Anavrins - if you could take a look, it would be appreciated -- basically i want the stack logged in a more readable -- format and the normal code/error message to be returned -- unsure why the traceback method concatenates the stack -- when it can just be returned as a table - would make -- filtering much simpler -- the following seems to reduce the stacktrace way too -- much - losing most of the relevant call stack -- i have modified this a bit from the original - not sure -- if my changes are causing the issues or not -- Trim identical suffixes local t_len, m_len = #ttarget, #tmarker while t_len >= 3 and ttarget[t_len] == tmarker[m_len] do table.remove(ttarget, t_len) t_len, m_len = t_len - 1, m_len - 1 end -- Trim elements from this file and xpcall invocations while t_len >= 1 and ttarget[t_len]:find("^\tstack_trace%.lua:%d+:") or ttarget[t_len] == "\t[C]: in function 'xpcall'" or ttarget[t_len] == " xpcall: " do table.remove(ttarget, t_len) t_len = t_len - 1 end ]] ttarget[#ttarget] = nil -- remove 2 calls added by the added xpcall ttarget[#ttarget] = nil return ttarget end --- Run a function with return function (fn, ...) -- So this is rather grim: we need to get the full traceback and current one and remove -- the common prefix local trace local args = { ... } -- xpcall in Lua 5.1 does not accept parameters -- which is not ideal local res = table.pack(xpcall(function() return fn(table.unpack(args)) end, traceback)) if not res[1] then trace = traceback("trace.lua:1:") end local ok, err = res[1], res[2] if not ok and err ~= nil then trace = trim_traceback(err, trace) -- Find the position where the stack traceback actually starts local trace_starts for i = #trace, 1, -1 do if trace[i] == "stack traceback:" then trace_starts = i; break end end _G._syslog('') for _, line in pairs(trace) do _G._syslog(line) end -- If this traceback is more than 15 elements long, keep the first 9, last 5 -- and put an ellipsis between the rest local max = 10 if trace_starts and #trace - trace_starts > max then local keep_starts = trace_starts + 7 for i = #trace - trace_starts - max, 0, -1 do table.remove(trace, keep_starts + i) end table.insert(trace, keep_starts, " ...") end for k, line in pairs(trace) do trace[k] = line:gsub("in function", " in") end return false, table.remove(trace, 1), table.concat(trace, "\n") end return table.unpack(res, 1, res.n) end