Does this work as intended?
function create_exception() {
return new RuntimeException(); // line 2
}
try {
throw create_exception(); // line 6
} catch (Exception $e) {
var_dump($e); // => 2
}
I would have expected Exception::getLine() to return 6 in this case -
the line where the exception was thrown.
I know that I can dig in via e.g.
Exception::getStackTrace()[0]["line"] and pull the relevant
line-number myself, but I'm wondering why the line-number 2 is
relevant, important or interesting at all?
It's not uncommon to have e.g. static factory methods inside the
exception itself, which would cause the exception instance to report
the line-number of the new-statement inside the factory constructor,
which has no particular importance or relevance for any purpose, as
far as I can figure.
Apparently this has been reported as a bug before:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53882
There was talk of a fix in the comments, but it looks like this issue
went stale and was closed without any further explanation?
The documentation is also a little ambiguous on this point:
http://php.net/manual/en/exception.getline.php
At the top of the page, it says "Gets the line in which the exception
occurred", which isn't correct. (The rest of the page correctly says
"the line number where the exception was created")
Would it adversely affect anything to fix this?
It's technically a BC break, I guess.
Perhaps adding a dedicated getLineThrown() method would be better with
regards to BC?
I know that I can dig in via e.g.
Exception::getStackTrace()[0]["line"] and pull the relevant
line-number myself, but I'm wondering why the line-number 2 is
relevant, important or interesting at all?
If you are rethrowing exceptions inside the catch bloc:
for ($code = 0; $code < 2; $code++) {
try {
throw new Exception('Message '.$code, $code);
}
catch (\Exception $e) {
if ($e->getCode() > 0) {
throw $e;
}
}
}
Inside the catch bloc I check whether the Exception code is one that can
be handled at that place (code = 0), if not I rethrow the exception. If
the line property would refer to the place where the exception was
thrown I'd lose information in that case.
Tim
Am 19.05.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Rasmus Schultz:
Does this work as intended?
According to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64910 it does :-(
Sebastian Bergmann sebastian@php.net schrieb am Do., 19. Mai 2016 14:12:
Am 19.05.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Rasmus Schultz:
Does this work as intended?
According to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64910 it does :-(
--
Resending to complete list:
Yes, this is intended. Exceptions in PHP are always populated upon creation.
Please note the already mentioned issues with rethrowing and also, that
some exceptions might not get thrown at all, e.g. because of the use of
promises.
Exceptions in PHP are always populated upon creation
Wow.
Well, I've always wondered why the throw site wasn't in the stack
trace - this explains that.
This is inconsistent with at least JavaScript and C#, where the stack
trace is populated at the throw site. (Probably others?)
That doesn't really make any sense to me, for a number of reasons.
First, who cares where the Exception was constructed? That has no
relevance, and it's often a factory method or in some cases a more
complex facility, such as the one in Doctrine DBAL that maps PDO error
info to an Exception.
You will miss the actual throw site - unless it happens to be the same
site as where the constructor was invoked, but there's no guarantee of
that.
When exceptions get re-thrown, there is no trace of the actual site
from where the unhandled Exception was thrown - you're lugging around
a stack trace that doesn't actually have the current stack.
Technically, every throw is a new exception "flow" - even if you're
recycling the Exception instance, it's the throw statement that starts
the unique stack unwind from the throw site; it's where the action
happens. What's important then, is the throw statement, not the
object, since the site where the object happens to get created has no
bearing on the stack at the time when the exception gets thrown or
re-thrown.
In other words, throw new Exception() only happens to work most of the
time because the throw and new statements happen to be issued at the
same site.
This is wonky.
Can we fix it?
Sebastian Bergmann sebastian@php.net schrieb am Do., 19. Mai 2016 14:12:
Am 19.05.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Rasmus Schultz:
Does this work as intended?
According to https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64910 it does :-(
--
Resending to complete list:
Yes, this is intended. Exceptions in PHP are always populated upon creation.
Please note the already mentioned issues with rethrowing and also, that
some exceptions might not get thrown at all, e.g. because of the use of
promises.
Technically, every throw is a new exception "flow" - even if you're > recycling the Exception instance, it's the throw statement that >
starts the unique stack unwind from the throw site; it's where the >
action happens.
That's one interpretation, but it doesn't really hold up in all cases.
Consider a catch statement that needs to filter more granularly than the
class name; since you already mentioned PDO, I'll make an example with that:
catch ( PDOException $e ) {
if ( substr($e->getCode(), 0, 2) === '08' ) {
$this->reconnect();
} else {
throw $e;
}
}
Of what value to a subsequent catch statement is the trace of that throw
statement? And why does that "start a new exception flow", but if PDO
threw different sub-classes, you could let one flow through unmodified
by tightening the catch statement?
Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com
wrote:
Technically, every throw is a new exception "flow" - even if you're >
recycling the Exception instance, it's the throw statement that >starts the unique stack unwind from the throw site; it's where the >
action happens.That's one interpretation, but it doesn't really hold up in all cases.
Consider a catch statement that needs to filter more granularly than the
class name; since you already mentioned PDO, I'll make an example with that:catch ( PDOException $e ) {
if ( substr($e->getCode(), 0, 2) === '08' ) {
$this->reconnect();
} else {
throw $e;
}
}Of what value to a subsequent catch statement is the trace of that throw
statement? And why does that "start a new exception flow", but if PDO threw
different sub-classes, you could let one flow through unmodified by
tightening the catch statement?
True, but if you instead of throwing the same exception, threw a new one,
you could capture both stacks. But you can never get the stack from the
throw point of something created elsewhere.
catch ( PDOException $e ) {
if ( substr($e->getCode(), 0, 2) === '08' ) {
$this->reconnect();
} else {
throw new PDOException($e->getMessage(), $e->getCode(), $e);
}
}
Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
True, but if you instead of throwing the same exception, threw a new one, you could capture both stacks. But you can never get the stack from the throw point of something created elsewhere.
Precisely.
I think there are good reasons why other languages collect the
stack-trace on throw.
Collecting the stack trace at construction would be correct if "throw
new" was literally one statement - if the only time you could throw
was at creation.
That's not the case. We have deferred throws and factory methods for
exceptions, and we have re-throws, so collecting the stack-trace at
construction time doesn't work.
Of course, fixing this would require a BC break, and nobody wants to
even entertain the thought of those :-(
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com
wrote:Technically, every throw is a new exception "flow" - even if you're >
recycling the Exception instance, it's the throw statement that >starts the unique stack unwind from the throw site; it's where the >
action happens.That's one interpretation, but it doesn't really hold up in all cases.
Consider a catch statement that needs to filter more granularly than the
class name; since you already mentioned PDO, I'll make an example with that:catch ( PDOException $e ) {
if ( substr($e->getCode(), 0, 2) === '08' ) {
$this->reconnect();
} else {
throw $e;
}
}Of what value to a subsequent catch statement is the trace of that throw
statement? And why does that "start a new exception flow", but if PDO threw
different sub-classes, you could let one flow through unmodified by
tightening the catch statement?True, but if you instead of throwing the same exception, threw a new one,
you could capture both stacks. But you can never get the stack from the
throw point of something created elsewhere.catch ( PDOException $e ) {
if ( substr($e->getCode(), 0, 2) === '08' ) {
$this->reconnect();
} else {
throw new PDOException($e->getMessage(), $e->getCode(), $e);
}
}Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
Of what value to a subsequent catch statement is the trace of that throw statement? And why does that "start a new exception flow", but if PDO threw different sub-classes, you could let one flow through unmodified by tightening the catch statement?
True, but if you instead of throwing the same exception, threw a new
one, you could capture both stacks.
The same could be said of the current behaviour:
throw new PDOException($e->getMessage(), $e->getCode(), $e);
Since this contains both "throw" and "new", it's guaranteed a new stack
trace in either convention.
So the question remains which is the more likely desired behaviour if
you don't re-wrap it, and I honestly don't know the answer.
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
This is inconsistent with at least JavaScript and C#, where the stack
trace is populated at the throw site. (Probably others?)
I'm not sure about C#, but in JavaScript (Node.js):
function get_error() {
return new Error('my error');
}
function do_throw(e) {
throw e;
}
try {
do_throw(get_error());
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.stack);
}
results in:
Error: my error
at get_error (/home/jesse/src/test.js:2:12)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jesse/src/test.js:10:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
at startup (node.js:146:18)
at node.js:404:3
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.
2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Rasmus Schultz rasmus@mindplay.dk
wrote:This is inconsistent with at least JavaScript and C#, where the stack
trace is populated at the throw site. (Probably others?)I'm not sure about C#, but in JavaScript (Node.js):
function get_error() {
return new Error('my error');
}function do_throw(e) {
throw e;
}try {
do_throw(get_error());
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.stack);
}results in:
Error: my error
at get_error (/home/jesse/src/test.js:2:12)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jesse/src/test.js:10:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
at startup (node.js:146:18)
at node.js:404:3The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.
The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw, you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.
2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw, you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.
That explanation justifies completely the opposite behaviour to what
Jesse described.
According to MDN [1] the "stack" property is completley unstandardised,
and some engines may indeed populate it on throw, but there's no hint on
that page that they'll attach it to anything not constructed as an Error.
So it's not a great comparison for either side (note that it was
originally brought up by Rasmus as an example where it does come from
the throw site) because the language doesn't actually guarantee you a
stack trace at all.
[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error/stack
Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
Alright, so forget my comparison with other languages.
My other points remain:
Presently, "throw new" is treated as though it was one statement.
That's not the case. We have deferred throws and factory methods for
exceptions, and we have re-throws, so collecting the stack-trace at
construction time doesn't work.
The construction site would only be relevant if "throw new" was in
deed a single statement.
Recording the actual throw site is clearly the goal - the current
implementation is betting on "throw" and "new" happening at the same
site, which is merely circumstance.
Ideally, an Exception should collect another stack trace for each
successive throw, which would enable you to trace not only the
original site, but the flow through any exception-handlers that might
have re-thrown the same Exception.
As is, there is no information collected on throw, and thereby no
evidence or record of possible re-throws - on top of the fact that you
may be collecting and looking at bogus stack-traces from factory
methods or exception mappers.
2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw, you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.That explanation justifies completely the opposite behaviour to what Jesse
described.According to MDN [1] the "stack" property is completley unstandardised, and
some engines may indeed populate it on throw, but there's no hint on that
page that they'll attach it to anything not constructed as an Error.So it's not a great comparison for either side (note that it was originally
brought up by Rasmus as an example where it does come from the throw site)
because the language doesn't actually guarantee you a stack trace at all.[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error/stackRegards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
Alright, so forget my comparison with other languages.
My other points remain:
Presently, "throw new" is treated as though it was one statement.
That's not the case. We have deferred throws and factory methods for
exceptions, and we have re-throws, so collecting the stack-trace at
construction time doesn't work.The construction site would only be relevant if "throw new" was in
deed a single statement.Recording the actual throw site is clearly the goal - the current
implementation is betting on "throw" and "new" happening at the same
site, which is merely circumstance.Ideally, an Exception should collect another stack trace for each
successive throw, which would enable you to trace not only the
original site, but the flow through any exception-handlers that might
have re-thrown the same Exception.As is, there is no information collected on throw, and thereby no
evidence or record of possible re-throws - on top of the fact that you
may be collecting and looking at bogus stack-traces from factory
methods or exception mappers.2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw, you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.That explanation justifies completely the opposite behaviour to what Jesse
described.According to MDN [1] the "stack" property is completley unstandardised, and
some engines may indeed populate it on throw, but there's no hint on that
page that they'll attach it to anything not constructed as an Error.So it's not a great comparison for either side (note that it was originally
brought up by Rasmus as an example where it does come from the throw site)
because the language doesn't actually guarantee you a stack trace at all.[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error/stackRegards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]--
--
Hi.
I explained that in my article detailing Exceptions from internal ,
http://jpauli.github.io/2015/04/09/exceptional-php.html
I admit it would be more logical to collect the trace in the
ZEND_THROW Opcode instead of in the create_handler of the Exception
class.
That would break backtraces, but we already broke them in PHP 7.0
So we could think about it for a 8.0 ideally , or a 7.1 ; I'm not
sure. Anyway, that needs more debate ;-)
Julien.Pauli
it would be more logical to collect the trace in the ZEND_THROW Opcode instead of in the create_handler of the Exception class
I've been pondering a means of doing this with relatively few BC issues.
There are four use-cases right now:
- Direct: throw new Exception()
- Indirect: throw $factory->createException()
- Re-throwing: throw $exception
- Not throwing: $exception = new Exception()
The first use-case (throw new) makes up the large majority, and would
be unaffected by this change.
The second use-case (indirect throw, factory) and third use-case
(re-throwing) are both broken as-is - in either case, it isn't
reporting the correct stack-trace now. This change corrects those
cases. Even if that's a minor BC break, it corrects an error.
By my analysis, that leaves only the 4th case (not throwing) as a
potentially serious BC break. If somebody is presently constructing an
Exception just as a means of extracting a stack-trace, this would no
longer work. But there is a more direct way of doing that, which is
debug_backtrace()
, so likely the number of cases of this in the wild
are few, and easy to correct, and likely with backwards-compatibility
of the corrected code in all cases.
I can't think of any other case where this change affects anything,
but please correct me and point out any other case you can think of?
As for Exception::getTrace(), I would propose the signature be changed
to Exception::getTrace($index = 0) which would be backwards compatible
in API terms - the default argument of 0 for $index would return the
most recent stack trace, whereas an index of 1 would return the
previous stack trace, e.g. after a re-throw.
Exception::getTraceAsString() could either change in the same way, or
render out all collected traces (which might be a bit much) or could
simply render the most recently collected trace - I'm not sure which
is best or most compatible.
Exception::getLine() could either return the line-number of the first
or last collected stack-trace - returning the first collected
line-number is more compatible, consistent with "return new" and
re-throwing, but returning the last line-number might be more correct,
I'm not sure.
Would a change like this require an RFC (and a vote) or is it arguably
a bug? (I'm guessing this change is too substantial to be considered a
"bug fix"?)
Alright, so forget my comparison with other languages.
My other points remain:
Presently, "throw new" is treated as though it was one statement.
That's not the case. We have deferred throws and factory methods for
exceptions, and we have re-throws, so collecting the stack-trace at
construction time doesn't work.The construction site would only be relevant if "throw new" was in
deed a single statement.Recording the actual throw site is clearly the goal - the current
implementation is betting on "throw" and "new" happening at the same
site, which is merely circumstance.Ideally, an Exception should collect another stack trace for each
successive throw, which would enable you to trace not only the
original site, but the flow through any exception-handlers that might
have re-thrown the same Exception.As is, there is no information collected on throw, and thereby no
evidence or record of possible re-throws - on top of the fact that you
may be collecting and looking at bogus stack-traces from factory
methods or exception mappers.2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw, you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.That explanation justifies completely the opposite behaviour to what Jesse
described.According to MDN [1] the "stack" property is completley unstandardised, and
some engines may indeed populate it on throw, but there's no hint on that
page that they'll attach it to anything not constructed as an Error.So it's not a great comparison for either side (note that it was originally
brought up by Rasmus as an example where it does come from the throw site)
because the language doesn't actually guarantee you a stack trace at all.[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error/stackRegards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]--
--
Hi.
I explained that in my article detailing Exceptions from internal ,
http://jpauli.github.io/2015/04/09/exceptional-php.htmlI admit it would be more logical to collect the trace in the
ZEND_THROW Opcode instead of in the create_handler of the Exception
class.That would break backtraces, but we already broke them in PHP 7.0
So we could think about it for a 8.0 ideally , or a 7.1 ; I'm not
sure. Anyway, that needs more debate ;-)Julien.Pauli
The second use-case (indirect throw, factory) and third use-case
(re-throwing) are both broken as-is - in either case, it isn't
reporting the correct stack-trace now. This change corrects those
cases. Even if that's a minor BC break, it corrects an error.
I'm still not convinced that re-throwing should automatically generate a
new stack trace.
To repeat my previous question, why should the two blocks below produce
different backtraces?
A:
try {
throw new FooException;
}
catch ( BarException $e ) {
// FooException doesn't match the constraint, so bubbles up
}
B:
try {
throw new FooException;
}
catch ( Exception $e ) {
if ( ! $e instanceOf BarException ) {
// FooException doesn't match the constraint, so is re-thrown
throw $e;
}
}
Since no actual changes happened to $e in block B (and exceptions should
normally be immutable in practice, I think), what information is gained
by knowing that a block caught it, examined it, and decided it could do
nothing with it? And if that information is valuable, why is not also
valuable when the check is implicit in the specification of the catch
clause?
In my opinion, it would be reasonable to attach the stack trace the
first time an exception was thrown. This fixes your main problem,
indirect / factory construction, and would be relatively simple to
implement - when throwing the exception, check if the stack trace has
already been added; if not, add it.
Would a change like this require an RFC (and a vote) or is it arguably
a bug? (I'm guessing this change is too substantial to be considered a
"bug fix"?)
In my opinion, it's substantial behaviour change, and would definitely
require an RFC, particularly if the default behaviour of one or more
methods would change, so that unchanged PHP code gave different results.
Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
2016-05-24 17:32 GMT+02:00 Rasmus Schultz rasmus@mindplay.dk:
it would be more logical to collect the trace in the ZEND_THROW Opcode
instead of in the create_handler of the Exception classI've been pondering a means of doing this with relatively few BC issues.
There are four use-cases right now:
- Direct: throw new Exception()
- Indirect: throw $factory->createException()
- Re-throwing: throw $exception
- Not throwing: $exception = new Exception()
You missed the "5. Throw later" case, e.g. for coroutines using
Generator::throw.
http://amphp.org/docs/amp/managing-concurrency.html#generators
Regards, Niklas
The first use-case (throw new) makes up the large majority, and would
be unaffected by this change.The second use-case (indirect throw, factory) and third use-case
(re-throwing) are both broken as-is - in either case, it isn't
reporting the correct stack-trace now. This change corrects those
cases. Even if that's a minor BC break, it corrects an error.By my analysis, that leaves only the 4th case (not throwing) as a
potentially serious BC break. If somebody is presently constructing an
Exception just as a means of extracting a stack-trace, this would no
longer work. But there is a more direct way of doing that, which is
debug_backtrace()
, so likely the number of cases of this in the wild
are few, and easy to correct, and likely with backwards-compatibility
of the corrected code in all cases.I can't think of any other case where this change affects anything,
but please correct me and point out any other case you can think of?As for Exception::getTrace(), I would propose the signature be changed
to Exception::getTrace($index = 0) which would be backwards compatible
in API terms - the default argument of 0 for $index would return the
most recent stack trace, whereas an index of 1 would return the
previous stack trace, e.g. after a re-throw.Exception::getTraceAsString() could either change in the same way, or
render out all collected traces (which might be a bit much) or could
simply render the most recently collected trace - I'm not sure which
is best or most compatible.Exception::getLine() could either return the line-number of the first
or last collected stack-trace - returning the first collected
line-number is more compatible, consistent with "return new" and
re-throwing, but returning the last line-number might be more correct,
I'm not sure.Would a change like this require an RFC (and a vote) or is it arguably
a bug? (I'm guessing this change is too substantial to be considered a
"bug fix"?)On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Rasmus Schultz rasmus@mindplay.dk
wrote:Alright, so forget my comparison with other languages.
My other points remain:
Presently, "throw new" is treated as though it was one statement.
That's not the case. We have deferred throws and factory methods for
exceptions, and we have re-throws, so collecting the stack-trace at
construction time doesn't work.The construction site would only be relevant if "throw new" was in
deed a single statement.Recording the actual throw site is clearly the goal - the current
implementation is betting on "throw" and "new" happening at the same
site, which is merely circumstance.Ideally, an Exception should collect another stack trace for each
successive throw, which would enable you to trace not only the
original site, but the flow through any exception-handlers that might
have re-thrown the same Exception.As is, there is no information collected on throw, and thereby no
evidence or record of possible re-throws - on top of the fact that you
may be collecting and looking at bogus stack-traces from factory
methods or exception mappers.On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Rowan Collins <
rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:2016-05-20 4:13 GMT+02:00 Jesse Schalken me@jesseschalken.com:
The top frame is the construction (get_error) and the site of the
throw
(do_throw) doesn't appear in the stack at all.The comparison with JavaScript isn't a good one, since you can throw
everything in JS. If they didn't provide the stack trace upon throw,
you
would not have a stack trace at all if you throw a plain string.That explanation justifies completely the opposite behaviour to what
Jesse
described.According to MDN [1] the "stack" property is completley
unstandardised, and
some engines may indeed populate it on throw, but there's no hint on
that
page that they'll attach it to anything not constructed as an Error.So it's not a great comparison for either side (note that it was
originally
brought up by Rasmus as an example where it does come from the throw
site)
because the language doesn't actually guarantee you a stack trace at
all.[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Error/stack
Regards,
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]--
--
Hi.
I explained that in my article detailing Exceptions from internal ,
http://jpauli.github.io/2015/04/09/exceptional-php.htmlI admit it would be more logical to collect the trace in the
ZEND_THROW Opcode instead of in the create_handler of the Exception
class.That would break backtraces, but we already broke them in PHP 7.0
So we could think about it for a 8.0 ideally , or a 7.1 ; I'm not
sure. Anyway, that needs more debate ;-)Julien.Pauli
+1
There is use case - exception without backtrace, used to global return.
Example REST API
throw new RedirectExeception('/url', 302); // creating in backtrace is overhead