Re: [whatwg] Stack trace in window.onerror

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, James Greene wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Nathan Broadbent wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The current information passed to window.onerror rarely provides
> > > > sufficient information to find the cause of the error. The column
> > > > number argument will be a big step forward, but a stack trace would
> > > > be especially useful. I would like to add my support for improving
> > > > the window.onerror arguments, with a fifth argument for stack trace.
> > > > Is there anything that James or I could do to move this discussion
> > > > along?
> > >
> > > This seems useful, but I don't think it's specific to window.onerror.
> > > I would recommend approaching the es-discuss list about this.
> >
> > I'm curious: would do you say that?  All evergreen browsers already
> > include a `stack` property on their core `Error` prototypes, so it seems
> > to me that the only thing preventing us from getting that useful
> > information for unhandled errors is the fact that `window.onerror` does
> > not provide us with a real Error object instances (or even fake ones
> > with shell properties in the case of cross-domain errors).
>
> Ah, I was unaware of Error.stack. Interesting!
>

There is no static property with the name "stack" on the [[Global]]
built-in Error object, nor is the property added to Error.prototype. In v8,
SpiderMonkey and JSC, the stack property appears on the actual instance
object initialized by Error.



Rick

Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2013 21:25:22 UTC