Dancer2::Core::Error(3pm)

NAME
Dancer2::Core::Error - Class representing fatal errors

VERSION
version 2.1.0

SYNOPSIS
    use Dancer2::Core::Error;

    my $error = Dancer2::Core::Error->new(
        status    => 404,
        message => "No such file: `$path'"
    );

    $error->throw;

DESCRIPTION
With Dancer2::Core::Error you can throw reasonable-looking errors to the user instead of crashing the application and filling up the logs.

This is usually used in debugging environments, and it's what Dancer2 uses as well under debugging to catch errors and show them on screen.

ATTRIBUTES

  show_stacktrace

  charset

  type
The error type.

  title
The title of the error page.

This is only an attribute getter, you'll have to set it at "new".

  status
The status that caused the error.

This is only an attribute getter, you'll have to set it at "new".

  message
The message of the error page.

  censor
The function to use to censor error messages. By default it uses the "censor" method of Data::Censor"

         # default censor function used by `error_censor`
         # is equivalent to
         sub MyApp::censor {
             Data::Censor->new(
                sensitive_fields => qr/pass|card.?num|pan|secret/i,
                replacement      => "Hidden (looks potentially sensitive)",
            )->censor(@_);
         }
         setting error_censor => 'MyApp::censor';

It can be configured via the app setting "error_censor". If provided, "error_censor" has to be the fully qualified name of the censor function. That function is expected to take in the data as a hashref, modify it in place and return the number of items 'censored'.

For example, using Data::Censor.

    # in config.yml
    error_censor: MyApp::Censor::censor

    # in MyApp::Censor
    package MyApp::Censor;

    use Data::Censor;

    my $data_censor = Data::Censor->new(
        sensitive_fields => [ qw(card_number password hush) ],
        replacement => '(Sensitive data hidden)',
    );

    sub censor { $data_censor->censor(@_) }

    1;

As a shortcut, "error_censor" can also be the key/value combo of a class and the arguments for its constructor. The created object is expected to have a method "censor". For example, the use of Data::Censor above could also have been done via the config

    error_censor:
        Data::Censor:
            sensitive_fields:
                - card_number
                - password
                - hush
            replacement: '(Sensitive data hidden)'

METHODS

  my $error=new Dancer2::Core::Error(status => 404, message => "No such file: `$path'");
Create a new Dancer2::Core::Error object. For available arguments see ATTRIBUTES.

  supported_hooks ();

  throw($response)
Populates the content of the response with the error's information. If $response is not given, acts on the app attribute's response.

  backtrace
Show the surrounding lines of context at the line where the error was thrown.

This method tries to find out where the error appeared according to the actual error message (using the "message" attribute) and tries to parse it (supporting the regular/default Perl warning or error pattern and the Devel::SimpleTrace output) and then returns an error-highlighted "message".

  environment
A main function to render environment information: the caller (using "get_caller"), the settings and environment (using "dumper") and more.

  get_caller
Creates a stack trace of callers.

FUNCTIONS

  _censor
An private function that tries to censor out content which should be protected.

"dumper" calls this method to censor things like passwords and such.

  my $string=_html_encode ($string);
Private function that replaces illegal entities in (X)HTML with their escaped representations.

html_encode() doesn't do any UTF black magic.

  dumper
This uses Data::Dumper to create nice content output with a few predefined options.

AUTHOR
Dancer Core Developers

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Alexis Sukrieh.

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