I have found what looks like a not tested case to me. When trying to convert following code with 2to3:
def test(arg):
raise()
The execution stops ungracefully with no indication why, nor what file caused the problem, this is very annoying if you are trying to convert a whole folder of python 2 scripts. The following is thrown:
...
exc= exc.children[1].children[0].clone()
IndexError: tuple out of range
I am expecting to obtain a BadInput exception. Clearly, given the source code just above, it is expecting raise("something") and since there is no check that "children" inside the tuple of raise () is even present, this causes error.
Please correct me if I am wrong, of course raise() is incorrect, but this should not crash the execution, likewise the following:
def test(arg):
print 1.method()
Throws BadInput exception with a clear indication what happened.
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I'm making a custom plugin to query a database for user info to aide customer support. My backend is slack.
Everytime I start the bot command I'm greeted with:
Computer says nooo. See logs for details:
catching classes that do not inherit from BaseException is not allowed
I'm not sure if this is warning me that I'm attempting to catch an exception that isn't a BaseClass in my code or if an unknown exception was raised and caught elsewhere outside of my plugin.
To debug I tried:
try:
do_the_thing()
except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
return('Something went wrong.')
I also tried:
try:
do_the_thing()
except Exception as e:
return('Something went wrong.')
And I still get the errbot admonition. Note that the command still runs and does the right thing where there is no exception raised by do_the_thing().
It means that:
Somewhere in your code you have an except ... statement where the exception ... (or one of the exceptions in the sequence ...) is not a subclass of BaseException, and
An exception is being thrown that is caught by that except ... statement.
The TypeError can be raised only when an exception is actually thrown because the names you give to except ... must be evaluated for their current values at that time; just because TypeError referenced a particular class at one point in the program's execution doesn't mean it won't be changed later to reference another object (though that would be admittedly perverse).
The Python interpreter should be giving you a full traceback of the exception; the first thing you need to do is find this. It could be occurring in one of two situations. (This is for single-threaded programs; I'm assuming your program is not multithreaded.)
During the execution of your program, in which case the program will be terminated by the exception, or
During finalization of objects (in their __del__(self) functions) in which case the error will be printed to stderr.
In both cases there should be a stack trace, not just the error message; I've confirmed that at least on Python ≥3.4 a stack trace is printed out for case 2.
You then need to follow this stack trace to see where the problem lies. Remember that the names you give to except ... are variables (even things like TypeError) that can be reassigned, so that you could conceivably be dealing with a (perverse) situation like:
TypeError = False
try:
...
except TypeError:
...
But more likely it will be something obvious such as:
class MyException: # Doesn't inherit from Exception
...
try:
...
except MyException:
...
There is one special case you need to be aware of: if you are seeing messages to stderr (case "2. During finalization," above) printed out as your program exits that means that the exception was thrown during cleanup as the interpreter shuts down, where random variables throughout the program may have already been set to None as part of the cleanup process. But in this case your program should still exit successfully.
I have two list objects and want to check that the first items of each are equal. However, I get a NullPointerException at this line:
assertEquals(instance.getPlane(0), planes.get(0));
This is the entire stack trace:
Testcase: testGetPlane(mypackage.PlaneTest): Caused an ERROR
null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at mypackage.PlaneTest.testGetPlane(PlaneTest.java:60)
(Line 60 is the assertion.)
Neither of those objects are null. I'm having a separate issue getting the debugger to work, so instead I added these printouts to my test case:
System.err.println("equals? " + instance.getPlane(0).equals(planes.get(0)));
System.err.println("equals? " + planes.get(0).equals(instance.getPlane(0)));
However, those lines executed without throwing any errors!
I've cleaned and built the project and restarted Netbeans, but still have this issue.
JUnit just calls expected.equals(actual), which should be exactly the same thing as my printouts that aren't throwing the error, right? Why would assertEquals throw a NullPointerException, but equals on the same objects would not?
(I was about to post the question alone when I discovered the fix, but since it was a pain I'm posting it anyways in hopes this may help someone else. I did not find any other questions which had this solution.)
The error is in fact caused by JUnit, when it tries to compose an error message.
In the format function, there are the lines:
String expectedString = String.valueOf(expected);
String actualString = String.valueOf(actual);
if (expectedString.equals(actualString)) { ... }
String.valueOf(Object obj) returns obj.toString() if obj is not null.
My object's toString method simply returned a "name" field, which was never set inside the test. So, the object was not null, but the function returned null. This caused the NullPointerException when JUnit tried to call expectedString.equals. Ensuring that toString never returns null fixed the error.
I am trying to do a simple addition of data to a database table (PostgreSQL). At first, I couldn't even get a simple
$my_item = $_item_class->new(...);
to work. I discovered I had spelled a field differently in my code from what I had in my "model" code.
But, now, this is working, but when I try:
$my_item->save;
it seems an exception is thrown. All this is occurring in an eval {...} structure and I would like to catch the exception and see what is going wrong, but I don't know how to do that.
Why would something like the "save" be failing here? I have checked everything, and all seems right (of course!).
And, how do I catch the exception that seems to be being thrown?
Thank you!
I figured all this out myself. It was simple. I had duplicated a field in my class somehow when I had done an edit to it. That was all. The class just had two identically named fields specified in the hash table in the class, both with identical characteristics. When I removed one of these, the code worked.
With regard to my second question about how to catch the exception, I had to learn how to have an
if ($#) {
.
.
.
}
right after my "eval {...}" structure. Because I am new to Perl, I didn't understand that. But, it was actually pretty easy to figure out. My problem was that I was working from some code as a model for me that didn't do that but named specific exceptions that were thrown in its "eval {...}" code. So, I thought that I had to have the names of exceptions that could be thrown by Rose::DB::Object calls, but I couldn't find any such exceptions in the documentation. When I learned about "if ($#) {...}", I was able to print out the reported exception in $# and from that I was able to see the problem with the duplicate field I mentioned above.
That was all there was to it. Everything is working just fine now.
Please see #7755661 first. I am using ECL and basically want to execute some code, trap any kind of condition that may occur and then continue execution, without prompting or entering the debugger. This is easy to achieve with the following handler-case macro:
(handler-case
(load "code.lisp") ; this may raise a condition
(error (condition)
(print condition))) ; this prints sth like #<a UNBOUND-VARIABLE>
My only problem is that I cannot find a generic way to print a more meaningful error for the user. Indeed my application is an HTTP server and the output goes to a web page. code.lisp is written by the user and it can raise any kind of condition, I do now want to list them all in my code. I would just like to print the same error message I see on the REPL when I do not use handler-case, but in the HTML page, e.g. for an "unbound variable" error, a string like "The variable VAR is unbound".
By inspecting a condition object of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE I see it has two slots: SI:REPORT-FUNCTION, which is a compiled function and SI:NAME, set to the name of the variable in this case. I guess SI:REPORT-FUNCTION could be what I need to invoke but how can I call it? If I try:
(handler-case foo (error (condition) (SI::REPORT-FUNCTION condition)))
it tells me that SI:REPORT-FUNCTION is undefined. SI or SYS in ECL is a package for functions and variables internal to the implementation, but I don't worry if my code is not portable, as long as it works.
BTW in other kinds of condition objects there are also other apparently useful slots for my purpose, named SI:FORMAT-CONTROL and SI:FORMAT-ARGUMENT, but I cannot access any of them from my code too.
I was looking for somethink alike to the getMessage() method of Java exception objects in Lisp, but none of my sources ever mentions something like that.
Moreover, is there any hope to be able to get the line number in code.lisp where the error occurred too? Without that it would be difficult for the user to locate the problem in his code.lisp source file. I would really want to provide this information and stopping at the first error is acceptable for me.
In Common Lisp when print escaping is disabled, the error message is printed.
CL-USER > (handler-case
a
(error (condition)
(write condition :escape nil)))
The variable A is unbound.
#<UNBOUND-VARIABLE 4020059743>
Note that PRINT binds *print-escape* to T.
Using PRINC works - it binds *print-escape* to NIL.
CL-USER > (handler-case
a
(error (condition)
(princ condition)))
The variable A is unbound.
#<UNBOUND-VARIABLE 4020175C0B>
This is described in CLHS 9.1.3 Printing Conditions.
Also note, when you have an object, which has a slot and the value of this slot is a function, then you need to get the slot value using the function SLOT-VALUE and then use FUNCALL or APPLY and call the function with the correct arguments.
If you have a condition of type simple-condition then it has a format-control and a format-argument information. This is described with an example how to use it for FORMAT in CLHS Function SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-CONTROL, SIMPLE-CONDITION-FORMAT-ARGUMENTS
My answer below is based on one I already gave at the ECL mailing list. Actually I would claim that this is not an embedding problem, but a Lisp one. You want to get some information at the file position of the form which caused the error. This is not attached to a condition because conditions happen independently of whether the form evaluated was interpreted, compiled or part of a function that is already installed in the Lisp image. In other words, it is up to you to know the position of the file which is being read and do some wrapping that adds the information.
The following is nonstandard and prone to change: ECL helps you by defining a variable ext::source-location when LOAD is used on a source file. This variable contains a CONS that should NEVER be changed or stored by the user, but you can get the file as (CAR EXT:*SOURCE-LOCATION*) and the file position as (CDR EXT:*SOURCE-LOCATION*). The plan is then to embed your LOAD form inside a HANDLER-BIND
(defparameter *error-message* nil)
(defparameter *error-tag* (cons))
(defun capture-error (condition)
(setf *error*
(format nil "At character ~S in file ~S an error was found:~%~A"
(cdr ext:*source-location*)
(car ext:*source-location*)
condition)))
(throw *error-tag* *error-message*))
(defun safely-load (file)
(handler-bind ((serious-condition #'capture-error))
(catch *error-tag*
(load file)
nil)))
(SAFELY-LOAD "myfile.lisp") will return either NIL or the formatted error.
In any case I strongly believe that relying on LOAD for this is doomed to fail. You should create your own version of LOAD, starting from this
(defun my-load (userfile)
(with-open-file (stream userfile :direction :input :external-format ....whateverformat...)
(loop for form = (read stream nil nil nil)
while form
do (eval-form-with-error-catching form))))
where EVAL-FORM-.... implements something like the code above. This function can be made more sophisticated and you may keep track of file positions, line numbers, etc. Your code will also be more portable this way.
So please, read the ANSI Spec and learn the language. The fact that you did not know how to print readably a condition and instead tried to play with ECL internals shows that you might face further problems in the future, trying to go with non-portable solutions (hidden slot names, report functions, etc) instead of first trying the standard way.
Further to my adventures with Erlang and ErlyDB. I am attempting to get ErlyDB working with BeepBeep
My ErlyDB setup works correctly when run outside of the BeepBeep environment (see Debugging ErlyDB and MySQL). I have basically take the working code and attempted to get it running inside BeepBeep.
I have the following code in my controller:
handle_request("index",[]) ->
erlydb:start(mysql,Database),
erlydb:code_gen(["thing.erl"],mysql),
NewThing = thing:new_with([{name, "name"},{value, "value"}]),
thing:save(NewThing),
{render,"home/index.html",[{data,"Hello World!"}]};
When I call the URL, the response outputs "Server Error".
There is no other error or exception information reported.
I have tried wrapping the call in try/catch to see if there is an underlying error - there is definitely an exception at the call to thing:new_with(), but no further information is available.
The stacktrace reports:
{thing,new,[["name","value"]]}
{home_controller,create,1}
{home_controller,handle_request,3}
{beepbeep,process_request,4}
{test_web,loop,1}
{mochiweb_http,headers,4}
{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}
Use pattern matching to assert that things work up to the call to thing:new/1:
ok = erlydb:start(mysql,Database),
ok = erlydb:code_gen(["thing.erl"],mysql),
You include only the stack trace, look at the exception message as well. I suspect that the error is that you get an 'undef' exception. But check that it is so. The first line in the stack trace indicates that it is a problem with calling thing:new/1 with ["name", "value"] as argument.
It is slightly odd that you show one clause of handle_request that is not calling home_controller:create/1 as per {home_controller,create,1} in the stack-trace. What do the other clauses in your handle_request/2 function look like?