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# Error.pm
#
# Copyright (c) 1997-8 Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>. All rights reserved.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
#
# Based on my original Error.pm, and Exceptions.pm by Peter Seibel
# <peter@weblogic.com> and adapted by Jesse Glick <jglick@sig.bsh.com>.
#
# but modified ***significantly***

package Error;

use strict;
use 5.004;

use overload (
	'""'	   =>	'stringify',
	'0+'	   =>	'value',
	'bool'     =>	sub { return 1; },
	'fallback' =>	1
);

$Error::Depth = 0;	# Depth to pass to caller()
$Error::Debug = 0;	# Generate verbose stack traces
@Error::STACK = ();	# Clause stack for try
$Error::THROWN = undef;	# last error thrown, a workaround until die $ref works

my $LAST;		# Last error created
my %ERROR;		# Last error associated with package

# Exported subs are defined in Error::subs

sub import {
    shift;
    local $Exporter::ExportLevel = $Exporter::ExportLevel + 1;
    Error::subs->import(@_);
}

# I really want to use last for the name of this method, but it is a keyword
# which prevent the syntax  last Error

sub prior {
    shift; # ignore

    return $LAST unless @_;

    my $pkg = shift;
    return exists $ERROR{$pkg} ? $ERROR{$pkg} : undef
	unless ref($pkg);

    my $obj = $pkg;
    my $err = undef;
    if($obj->isa('HASH')) {
	$err = $obj->{'__Error__'}
	    if exists $obj->{'__Error__'};
    }
    elsif($obj->isa('GLOB')) {
	$err = ${*$obj}{'__Error__'}
	    if exists ${*$obj}{'__Error__'};
    }

    $err;
}

# Return as much information as possible about where the error
# happened. The -stacktrace element only exists if $Error::DEBUG
# was set when the error was created

sub stacktrace {
    my $self = shift;

    return $self->{'-stacktrace'}
	if exists $self->{'-stacktrace'};

    my $text = exists $self->{'-text'} ? $self->{'-text'} : "Died";

    $text .= sprintf(" at %s line %d.\n", $self->file, $self->line)
	unless($text =~ /\n$/s);

    $text;
}

# Allow error propagation, ie
#
# $ber->encode(...) or
#    return Error->prior($ber)->associate($ldap);

sub associate {
    my $err = shift;
    my $obj = shift;

    return unless ref($obj);

    if($obj->isa('HASH')) {
	$obj->{'__Error__'} = $err;
    }
    elsif($obj->isa('GLOB')) {
	${*$obj}{'__Error__'} = $err;
    }
    $obj = ref($obj);
    $ERROR{ ref($obj) } = $err;

    return;
}

sub new {
    my $self = shift;
    my($pkg,$file,$line) = caller($Error::Depth);

    my $err = bless {
	'-package' => $pkg,
	'-file'    => $file,
	'-line'    => $line,
	@_
    }, $self;

    $err->associate($err->{'-object'})
	if(exists $err->{'-object'});

    # To always create a stacktrace would be very inefficient, so
    # we only do it if $Error::Debug is set

    if($Error::Debug) {
	require Carp;
	local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Error::Depth;
	my $text = defined($err->{'-text'}) ? $err->{'-text'} : "Error";
	my $trace = Carp::longmess($text);
	# Remove try calls from the trace
	$trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog;
	$trace =~ s/(\n\s+\S+__ANON__[^\n]+)?\n\s+eval[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::run_clauses[^\n]+\n\s+Error::subs::try[^\n]+(?=\n)//sog;
	$err->{'-stacktrace'} = $trace
    }

    $@ = $LAST = $ERROR{$pkg} = $err;
}

# Throw an error. this contains some very gory code.

sub throw {
    my $self = shift;
    local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1;

    # if we are not rethrow-ing then create the object to throw
    $self = $self->new(@_) unless ref($self);
    
    die $Error::THROWN = $self;
}

# syntactic sugar for
#
#    die with Error( ... );

sub with {
    my $self = shift;
    local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1;

    $self->new(@_);
}

# syntactic sugar for
#
#    record Error( ... ) and return;

sub record {
    my $self = shift;
    local $Error::Depth = $Error::Depth + 1;

    $self->new(@_);