samuelventura

samuelventura

How to keep the Code.eval_string environment on async execution

What is the proper way to evaluate a string and get a stack trace that honors the provided file: script.exs environment across all the code defined in that script regardless of whether it is executed in the current process or deferred to an async task?

The first two samples refer to the provided file: script.exs on the stack trace and the last one loses it.

Sample 1 keeps the reference to script.exs in its stacktrace

iex(1)> Code.eval_string("""
try do
  raise "RAISE"
rescue
  e -> {e, __STACKTRACE__}
end
""", [], file: "script.exs")

{{%RuntimeError{message: "RAISE"},
[
  {:elixir_eval, :__FILE__, 1, [file: ~c"script.exs", line: 2]},
  {:elixir, :eval_external_handler, 3,
   [file: ~c"src/elixir.erl", line: 386, error_info: %{module: Exception}]},
   ...
]}, []}

Sample 2 keeps the reference to script.exs in its stacktrace

iex(2)> Code.eval_string("""
fun = fn -> raise "RAISE" end
try do
  fun.()
rescue
  e -> {e, __STACKTRACE__}
end
""", [], file: "script.exs") 
{{%RuntimeError{message: "RAISE"},
[
  {:elixir_eval, :__FILE__, 1, [file: ~c"script.exs", line: 1]},
  {:elixir, :eval_external_handler, 3,
   [file: ~c"src/elixir.erl", line: 386, error_info: %{module: Exception}]},
  ...
]}, [fun: #Function<43.81571850/0 in :erl_eval.expr/6>]}

Sample 3 loses the reference to script.exs in its stacktrace

iex(3)> Code.eval_string("""
fun = fn -> raise "RAISE" end
Task.async(fn -> 
  try do
    fun.()
  rescue
    e -> {e, __STACKTRACE__}
  end
end) |> Task.await(:infinity)
""", [], file: "script.exs")
{{%RuntimeError{message: "RAISE"},
[
  {:elixir, :eval_external_handler, 3,
   [file: ~c"src/elixir.erl", line: 386, error_info: %{module: Exception}]},
  {:erl_eval, :do_apply, 7, [file: ~c"erl_eval.erl", line: 919]},
  {:erl_eval, :try_clauses, 10, [file: ~c"erl_eval.erl", line: 1233]},
  {Task.Supervised, :invoke_mfa, 2,
   [file: ~c"lib/task/supervised.ex", line: 101]}
]}, [fun: #Function<43.81571850/0 in :erl_eval.expr/6>]}

Need this to implement scripting with accurate tracing of unhandled exceptions in async code.

Things looking into at the moment:

  1. Process.info(self(), :current_stacktrace)
  2. Last call optimisation

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samuelventura

samuelventura

Found this notice which seems to explain it.

samuelventura

samuelventura

You mean like sample below? Apparently the reference to script.exs is lost as well.

iex(4)> Code.eval_string(
  """
  fun = fn ->
    raise "RAISE"
    List.flatten([])
  end

  Task.async(fn ->
    try do
      fun.()
    rescue
      e -> {e, __STACKTRACE__}
    end
  end) |> Task.await(:infinity)
  """,
  [],
  file: "script.exs"
)

{{%RuntimeError{message: "RAISE"},
[
  {:elixir, :eval_external_handler, 3,
   [file: ~c"src/elixir.erl", line: 386, error_info: %{module: Exception}]},
  {:erl_eval, :do_apply, 7, [file: ~c"erl_eval.erl", line: 919]},
  {:erl_eval, :exprs, 6, [file: ~c"erl_eval.erl", line: 271]},
  {:erl_eval, :try_clauses, 10, [file: ~c"erl_eval.erl", line: 1233]},
  {Task.Supervised, :invoke_mfa, 2,
   [file: ~c"lib/task/supervised.ex", line: 101]}
]}, [fun: #Function<43.81571850/0 in :erl_eval.expr/6>]}
josevalim

josevalim

Creator of Elixir

Oh, it works on Erlang AST rather than BEAM. :smiley: you can find it on erl_eval.

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