ghc-internal-9.1001.0: Basic libraries
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Portabilitynon-portable (GHC extensions)
Safe HaskellTrustworthy
LanguageHaskell2010

GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

Description

Exceptions and exception-handling functions.

The API of this module is unstable and not meant to be consumed by the general public. If you absolutely must depend on it, make sure to use a tight upper bound, e.g., base < 4.X rather than base < 5, because the interface can change rapidly without much warning.

Synopsis

Documentation

class (Typeable e, Show e) => Exception e where Source #

Any type that you wish to throw or catch as an exception must be an instance of the Exception class. The simplest case is a new exception type directly below the root:

data MyException = ThisException | ThatException
    deriving Show

instance Exception MyException

The default method definitions in the Exception class do what we need in this case. You can now throw and catch ThisException and ThatException as exceptions:

*Main> throw ThisException `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MyException))
Caught ThisException

In more complicated examples, you may wish to define a whole hierarchy of exceptions:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make the root exception type for all the exceptions in a compiler

data SomeCompilerException = forall e . Exception e => SomeCompilerException e

instance Show SomeCompilerException where
    show (SomeCompilerException e) = show e

instance Exception SomeCompilerException

compilerExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException
compilerExceptionToException = toException . SomeCompilerException

compilerExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e
compilerExceptionFromException x = do
    SomeCompilerException a <- fromException x
    cast a

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make a subhierarchy for exceptions in the frontend of the compiler

data SomeFrontendException = forall e . Exception e => SomeFrontendException e

instance Show SomeFrontendException where
    show (SomeFrontendException e) = show e

instance Exception SomeFrontendException where
    toException = compilerExceptionToException
    fromException = compilerExceptionFromException

frontendExceptionToException :: Exception e => e -> SomeException
frontendExceptionToException = toException . SomeFrontendException

frontendExceptionFromException :: Exception e => SomeException -> Maybe e
frontendExceptionFromException x = do
    SomeFrontendException a <- fromException x
    cast a

---------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Make an exception type for a particular frontend compiler exception

data MismatchedParentheses = MismatchedParentheses
    deriving Show

instance Exception MismatchedParentheses where
    toException   = frontendExceptionToException
    fromException = frontendExceptionFromException

We can now catch a MismatchedParentheses exception as MismatchedParentheses, SomeFrontendException or SomeCompilerException, but not other types, e.g. IOException:

*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: MismatchedParentheses))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeFrontendException))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: SomeCompilerException))
Caught MismatchedParentheses
*Main> throw MismatchedParentheses `catch` \e -> putStrLn ("Caught " ++ show (e :: IOException))
*** Exception: MismatchedParentheses

Minimal complete definition

Nothing

Methods

toException :: e -> SomeException Source #

toException should produce a SomeException with no attached ExceptionContext.

fromException :: SomeException -> Maybe e Source #

displayException :: e -> String Source #

Render this exception value in a human-friendly manner.

Default implementation: show.

@since base-4.8.0.0

backtraceDesired :: e -> Bool Source #

Instances

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Exception Void Source #

@since base-4.8.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

Exception NestedAtomically Source #

@since base-4.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception NoMatchingContinuationPrompt Source #

@since base-4.18

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception NoMethodError Source #

@since base-4.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception NonTermination Source #

@since base-4.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception PatternMatchFail Source #

@since base-4.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception RecConError Source #

@since base-4.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception RecSelError Source #

@since base-4.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception RecUpdError Source #

@since base-4.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception TypeError Source #

@since base-4.9.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Control.Exception.Base

Exception Dynamic Source #

@since base-4.0.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.Data.Dynamic

Exception ErrorCall Source #

@since base-4.0.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception

Exception ArithException Source #

@since base-4.0.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

Exception SomeException Source #

This drops any attached ExceptionContext.

@since base-3.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

Exception AllocationLimitExceeded Source #

@since base-4.8.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception ArrayException Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception AssertionFailed Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception AsyncException Source #

@since base-4.7.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception BlockedIndefinitelyOnSTM Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception CompactionFailed Source #

@since base-4.10.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception Deadlock Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception ExitCode Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception FixIOException Source #

@since base-4.11.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception IOException Source #

@since base-4.1.0.0

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Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception SomeAsyncException Source #

@since base-4.7.0.0

Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Exception

Exception FileLockingNotSupported Source # 
Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.IO.Handle.Lock.Common

Exception a => Exception (ExceptionWithContext a) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

Exception e => Exception (NoBacktrace e) Source # 
Instance details

Defined in GHC.Internal.Exception.Type

data SomeException Source #

The SomeException type is the root of the exception type hierarchy. When an exception of type e is thrown, behind the scenes it is encapsulated in a SomeException.

Exception context

type HasExceptionContext = ?exceptionContext :: ExceptionContext Source #

data ExceptionContext Source #

Exception context represents a list of ExceptionAnnotations. These are attached to SomeExceptions via addExceptionContext and can be used to capture various ad-hoc metadata about the exception including backtraces and application-specific context.

ExceptionContexts can be merged via concatenation using the Semigroup instance or mergeExceptionContext.

Note that GHC will automatically solve implicit constraints of type ExceptionContext with emptyExceptionContext.

emptyExceptionContext :: ExceptionContext Source #

An ExceptionContext containing no annotations.

@since base-4.20.0.0

mergeExceptionContext :: ExceptionContext -> ExceptionContext -> ExceptionContext Source #

Merge two ExceptionContexts via concatenation

@since base-4.20.0.0

data ExceptionWithContext a Source #

Wraps a particular exception exposing its ExceptionContext. Intended to be used when catching exceptions in cases where access to the context is desired.

Arithmetic exceptions

data ArithException Source #

Arithmetic exceptions.