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Monday, August 18th, 2008

Getting a JavaScript stracktrace in any browser

Category: JavaScript, Tip

<p>Eric Wendelin has posted on getting a JavaScript stack trace no matter that the browser.

With Firebug you can call console.trace() but what about the rest?

Luke Smith took Eric's work and added to it, ending up with:

PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
  1.  
  2. (function () {
  3. YOUR_NAMESPACE.getStackTrace = (function () {
  4.  
  5. var mode;
  6. try {(0)()} catch (e) {
  7.     mode = e.stack ? 'Firefox' : window.opera ? 'Opera' : 'Other';
  8. }
  9.  
  10. switch (mode) {
  11.     case 'Firefox' : return function () {
  12.         try {(0)()} catch (e) {
  13.             return e.stack.replace(/^.*?n/,'').
  14.                            replace(/(?:n@:0)?s+$/m,'').
  15.                            replace(/^(/gm,'{anonymous}(').
  16.                            split("n");
  17.         }
  18.     };
  19.  
  20.     case 'Opera' : return function () {
  21.         try {(0)()} catch (e) {
  22.             var lines = e.message.split("n"),
  23.                 ANON = '{anonymous}',
  24.                 lineRE = /Lines+(d+).*?ins+(httpS+)(?:.*?ins+functions+(S+))?/i,
  25.                 i,j,len;
  26.  
  27.             for (i=4,j=0,len=lines.length; i<len; i+=2) {
  28.                 if (lineRE.test(lines[i])) {
  29.                     lines[j++] = (RegExp.$3 ?
  30.                         RegExp.$3 + '()@' + RegExp.$2 + RegExp.$1 :
  31.                         ANON + RegExp.$2 + ':' + RegExp.$1) +
  32.                         ' -- ' + lines[i+1].replace(/^s+/,'');
  33.                 }
  34.             }
  35.  
  36.             lines.splice(j,lines.length-j);
  37.             return lines;
  38.         }
  39.     };
  40.  
  41.     default : return function () {
  42.         var curr  = arguments.callee.caller,
  43.             FUNC  = 'function', ANON = "{anonymous}",
  44.             fnRE  = /functions*([w-$]+)?s*(/i,
  45.             stack = [],j=0,
  46.             fn,args,i;
  47.  
  48.         while (curr) {
  49.             fn    = fnRE.test(curr.toString()) ? RegExp.$1 || ANON : ANON;
  50.             args  = stack.slice.call(curr.arguments);
  51.             i     = args.length;
  52.  
  53.             while (i--) {
  54.                 switch (typeof args[i]) {
  55.                     case 'string'  : args[i] = '"'+args[i].replace(/"/g,'\"')+'"'; break;
  56.                     case 'function': args[i] = FUNC; break;
  57.                 }
  58.             }
  60.             stack[j++] = fn + '(' + args.join() + ')';
  61.             curr = curr.caller;
  62.         }
  63.         return stack;
  64.     };
  65. }
  66. })();

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Posted by Dion Almaer at 5:43 am
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http://pastie.org/254922 <– this example works.

I’ve formatted the code for read-ability.
I haven’t changed any variable names.

Comment by roosteronacid — August 18, 2008

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