NAME
    Exception::Base - Lightweight exceptions

SYNOPSIS
      # Use module and create needed exceptions
      use Exception::Base
         'Exception::Runtime',              # create new module
         'Exception::System',               # load existing module
         'Exception::IO',          => {
             isa => 'Exception::System' },  # create new based on existing
         'Exception::FileNotFound' => {
             isa => 'Exception::IO',        # create new based on previous
             message => 'File not found',   # override default message
             has => [ 'filename' ] };       # define new rw attribute

      # eval/$@ (fastest method)
      eval {
        open my $file, '/etc/passwd'
          or Exception::FileNotFound->throw(
                message=>'Something wrong',
                filename=>'/etc/passwd');
      };
      if ($@) {
        my $e = Exception::Base->catch;   # convert $@ into exception
        if ($e->isa('Exception::IO')) { warn "IO problem"; }
        elsif ($e->isa('Exception::Eval')) { warn "eval died"; }
        elsif ($e->isa('Exception::Runtime')) { warn "some runtime was caught"; }
        elsif ($e->with(value=>9)) { warn "something happened"; }
        elsif ($e->with(qr/^Error/)) { warn "some error based on regex"; }
        else { $e->throw; } # rethrow the exception
      }

      # try/catch (15x slower)
      use Exception::Base ':all';   # import try/catch/throw
      try eval {
        open my $file, '/etc/passwd'
          or throw 'Exception::FileNotFound' =>
                        message=>'Something wrong',
                        filename=>'/etc/passwd';
      };
      if (catch my $e) {
        # $e is an exception object so no need to check if is blessed
        if ($e->isa('Exception::IO')) { warn "IO problem"; }
        elsif ($e->isa('Exception::Eval')) { warn "eval died"; }
        elsif ($e->isa('Exception::Runtime')) { warn "some runtime was caught"; }
        elsif ($e->with(value=>9)) { warn "something happened"; }
        elsif ($e->with(qr/^Error/)) { warn "some error based on regex"; }
        else { $e->throw; } # rethrow the exception
      }

      # $@ has to be recovered ASAP!
      eval { die "this die will be caught" };
      my $e = Exception::Base->catch;
      eval { die "this die will be ignored" };
      if ($e) {
         (...)
      }

      # try/catch can be separated with another eval
      try eval { die "this die will be caught" };
      do { eval { die "this die will be ignored" } };
      catch my $e;   # only first die is recovered

      # the exception can be thrown later
      my $e = Exception::Base->new;
      # (...)
      $e->throw;

      # try returns eval's value for scalar or array context
      $v = try eval { do_something_returning_scalar(); };
      @v = try [eval { do_something_returning_array(); }];

      # catch only IO errors, rethrow immediately others
      eval { File::Stat::Moose->stat("/etc/passwd") };
      if ($@) {
          my $e = Exception::Base->catch( ['Exception::IO'] );
      }

      # ignore our package in stack trace
      package My::Package;
      use Exception::Base '+ignore_package' => __PACKAGE__;

      # run Perl with changed verbosity for debugging purposes
      $ perl -MException::Base=verbosity,4 script.pl

DESCRIPTION
    This class implements a fully OO exception mechanism similar to
    Exception::Class or Class::Throwable. It provides a simple interface
    allowing programmers to declare exception classes. These classes can be
    thrown and caught. Each uncaught exception prints full stack trace if
    the default verbosity is uppered for debugging purposes.

    The features of Exception::Base:

    * fast implementation of the exception class

    * fully OO without closures and source code filtering

    * does not mess with $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__}

    * no external modules dependencies, requires core Perl modules only

    * implements error stack, the try/catch blocks can be nested

    * the default behaviour of exception class can be changed globally or
      just for the thrown exception

    * matching the exception by class, message or other attributes

    * matching with string, regex or closure function

    * creating automatically the derived exception classes ("use" interface)

    * easly expendable, see Exception::System class for example

    * prints just an error message or dumps full stack trace

    * can propagate (rethrow) an exception

AUTHOR
    Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>

LICENSE
    Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 by Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org>.

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

    See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

