Moose::Manual::Exceptions(3)

NAME
Moose::Manual::Exceptions - Moose's exceptions

VERSION
version 2.1204

Exceptions in Moose
Moose will throw an instance of "Moose::Exception" when it encounters an error condition. There are many specific subclasses of Moose::Exception, each designed specifically for its particular error condition. These subclasses have attributes that contain relevant information, such as a stack trace, related metaclass objects, etc.

Handling Moose Exceptions
Because Moose's exceptions use the standard "die" mechanism, you are free to catch and handle errors however you like. You could use Perl's builtin "eval" to catch Moose exceptions. However due to the subtle problems "eval" can introduce into your programs, the Moose team strongly recommends using Try::Tiny instead. Please refer to Try::Tiny's documentation for a discussion of how "eval" is dangerous.

The following example demonstrates how to catch and inspect a Moose::Exception. For the sake of simplicity, we will cause a very simple error. The "extends" keywords expects a list of superclass names. If we pass no superclass names, Moose will throw an instance of Moose::Exception::ExtendsMissingArgs.

  Catching with Try::Tiny
    use warnings;
    use strict;
    use Try::Tiny;

    try {
        package Example::Exception;
        use Moose;
        extends; # <-- error!
    } catch {
        # $_ contains the instance of the exception thrown by the above try block
        # $_ may get clobbered, so we should copy its value to another variable
        my $exception = $_;

        # exception objects are not ubiquitous in Perl, so we must check whether $exception is blessed
        # we also need to ensure that $exception is actually the kind of exception we were expecting
        if ( blessed $exception && $exception->isa("Moose::Exception::ExtendsMissingArgs") ) {
            # fetch attributes from the $exception object and display a friendly error to the user
            my $class_name = $exception->class_name;
            warn "You forgot to specify the superclass of $class_name, dummy!";
        } else {
            # you've got some other kind of exception, so just print it
            # note: all Moose::Exception objects will stringify to a useful error message
            warn "$exception\n";
        }
    }

  Example of catching ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint
    use warnings;
    use strict;
    use Try::Tiny;

    {
        package Person;
        use Moose;
        use Moose::Util::TypeConstraints;

        subtype 'NameStr',
        as 'Str',
        where { $_ =~ /^[a-zA-Z]+$/; };

        has 'age' => (
            is       => 'ro',
            isa      => 'Int',
            required => 1
        );

        has 'name' => (
            is       => 'ro',
            isa      => 'NameStr',
            required => 1
        );
    }

    my $person;
    while( !$person ) {
        try {
            print "Enter your age : ";
            my $age = <STDIN>;
            chomp $age;
            print "Enter your name : ";
            my $name = <STDIN>;
            chomp $name;
            $person = Person->new( age  => $age,
                                   name => $name
                                 );
            my $person_name = $person->name;
            my $person_age  = $person->age;
            print "$person_name is $person_age years old\n";
        } catch {
            my $exception = $_;

            if ( blessed $exception && $exception->isa("Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint") ) {

                # fetch attributes from the $exception object and display a friendly error to the user
                my $attribute_name = $exception->attribute->name;
                my $type_name = $exception->type->name;
                my $value = $exception->value;

                warn "You entered $value for $attribute_name, which is not $type_name!";
            } else {

                # you've got some other kind of exception, so just print it
                # note: all Moose::Exception objects will stringify to a useful error message
                warn "$exception\n";
            }
        }
    }

  Example of catching AttributeIsRequired
    use warnings;
    use strict;
    use Try::Tiny;

    {
        package Example::RequiredAttribute;
        use Moose;

        has 'required_attribute' => (
            is       => 'ro',
            isa      => 'Int',
            required => 1
        );
    }

    try {
        # we're not passing required_attribute, so it'll throw an exception
        my $object = Example::RequiredAttribute->new();
    } catch {
        my $exception = $_;
        if ( blessed $exception && $exception->isa("Moose::Exception::AttributeIsRequired") ) {

            # fetch attributes from the $exception object and display only
            # the topmost frame of the stack trace
            my $attribute_name = $exception->attribute->name;
            my $trace = $exception->trace;

            my $frame = $trace->frame(0);

            my $message = $exception->message;
            my $file    = $frame->{filename};
            my $line    = $frame->{line};

            warn "$message at $file $line\n";
        } else {

            # you've got some other kind of exception, so just print it
            # note: all Moose::Exception objects will stringify to a useful error message
            warn "$exception\n";
        }
    };

Moose Exception Types
These are documented in Moose::Manual::Exceptions::Manifest.

AUTHORS

•   Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>

•   Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

•   Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>

•   Shawn M Moore <code@sartak.org>

•   XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

•   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

•   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

•   Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@weftsoar.net>

•   Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

•   Matt S Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Infinity Interactive, Inc..

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.