Righto, filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124220
—Oliver
On Nov 12, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, the code I linked to, which arv refers to, when it finds itself on SM, normalizes the SM error stack string to approx v8's format. But the more important part of the answer is the parsed form provided by getCWStack.
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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
> Righto, do we know whether Carakan/V8’s text or SM’s text is preferred?
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> Currently it seems like JSC’s is a little bit weird compare to others, and as i’ve said earlier i’m happy to change it to match another engine (we all have the same info in varying ways, so we can all technically produce the same view in our .stack string)
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> —Oliver
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> On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
>> The only formatting requirement for the stack property is that if it is present, it must be a string.
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>> No. There is a lot of code out there that parses this string and depend on the format.
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>> See Mark's reply for one such case.
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>> —Oliver
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>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> When I started investigating this I had the hope that stack could be standardized. However, the format of the string is cannot be changed without breaking the web so the way forward is to introduce a new property name. But since we are introducing a new property name we should return structured data instead of a plain old string.
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>>> I haven't had the time to work on this since my initial analysis of the state of the stack property.
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>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, John Barton <johnjbarton at google.com> wrote:
>>> Note that in Chrome the devtools are remote and error.stack is a getter which issues a remote method call to the backend. Only when the stack property is accessed will the internal representation be converted to a string. Anything else is too expensive.
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>>> A plain JS object format would be much more useful for development tools developers.
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