Home
About
Blog
Products
Forum
Support
Contact
Sunbelt Computer Software
PL/B Language Development and Support
Home
About
Blog
Products
Forum
Support
Contact
leaf/example/lua_callback_exceptions.cpp at develop · boostorg/leaf · GitHub
Skip to content
Navigation Menu
Sign in
Appearance settings
Platform
AI CODE CREATION
GitHub Copilot
Write better code with AI
GitHub Copilot app
Direct agents from issue to merge
MCP Registry
Integrate external tools
DEVELOPER WORKFLOWS
Actions
Automate any workflow
Codespaces
Instant dev environments
Issues
Plan and track work
Code Review
Manage code changes
Code Quality
Enforce quality at merge
APPLICATION SECURITY
GitHub Advanced Security
Find and fix vulnerabilities
Code security
Secure your code as you build
Secret protection
Stop leaks before they start
EXPLORE
Why GitHub
Documentation
Blog
Changelog
Marketplace
View all features
Solutions
BY COMPANY SIZE
Enterprises
Small and medium teams
Startups
Nonprofits
BY USE CASE
App Modernization
DevSecOps
DevOps
CI/CD
View all use cases
BY INDUSTRY
Healthcare
Financial services
Manufacturing
Government
View all industries
View all solutions
Resources
EXPLORE BY TOPIC
AI
Software Development
DevOps
Security
View all topics
EXPLORE BY TYPE
Customer stories
Events & webinars
Ebooks & reports
Business insights
GitHub Skills
SUPPORT & SERVICES
Documentation
Customer support
Community forum
Trust center
Partners
View all resources
Open Source
COMMUNITY
GitHub Sponsors
Fund open source developers
PROGRAMS
Security Lab
Maintainer Community
GitHub Stars
Archive Program
REPOSITORIES
Topics
Trending
Collections
Enterprise
ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
Enterprise platform
AI-powered developer platform
AVAILABLE ADD-ONS
GitHub Advanced Security
Enterprise-grade security features
Copilot for Business
Enterprise-grade AI features
Premium Support
Enterprise-grade 24/7 support
Pricing
Search
/
Sign in
Sign up
Appearance settings
You signed in with another tab or window.
Reload
to refresh your session.
You signed out in another tab or window.
Reload
to refresh your session.
You switched accounts on another tab or window.
Reload
to refresh your session.
Dismiss alert
{{ message }}
Uh oh!
There was an error while loading.
Please reload this page
.
boostorg
/
leaf
Public
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings
Fork
55
Star
339
Code
Issues
1
Pull requests
0
Discussions
Actions
Projects
Security and quality
0
Insights
Additional navigation options
Code
Issues
Pull requests
Discussions
Actions
Projects
Security and quality
Insights
Files
Expand file tree
develop
Breadcrumbs
leaf
/
example
/
lua_callback_exceptions.cpp
Copy path
Blame
More file actions
Blame
More file actions
Latest commit
History
History
History
183 lines (153 loc) · 5.59 KB
develop
Breadcrumbs
leaf
/
example
/
lua_callback_exceptions.cpp
Copy path
Top
File metadata and controls
Code
Blame
183 lines (153 loc) · 5.59 KB
Raw
Copy raw file
Download raw file
Open symbols panel
Edit and raw actions
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
//
Copyright 2018-2025 Emil Dotchevski and Reverge Studios, Inc.
//
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
//
file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
//
This is a simple program that shows how to report error objects out of a
//
C-callback (which may not throw exceptions).
extern
"
C
"
{
#
include
"
lua.h
"
#
include
"
lauxlib.h
"
}
#
include
<
boost/leaf.hpp
>
#
include
<
iostream
>
#
include
<
memory
>
#
include
<
stdlib.h
>
namespace
leaf
=
boost::leaf;
enum
do_work_error_code
{
ec1=
1
,
ec2
};
struct
e_lua_pcall_error
{
int
value;
friend
std::ostream &
operator
<<( std::ostream & os, e_lua_pcall_error
const
& x )
{
os <<
"
Lua error code =
"
<< x.
value
;
switch
( x.
value
)
{
case
LUA_ERRRUN
:
return
os <<
"
(LUA_ERRRUN)
"
;
case
LUA_ERRMEM
:
return
os <<
"
(LUA_ERRMEM)
"
;
case
LUA_ERRERR
:
return
os <<
"
(LUA_ERRERR)
"
;
default
:
return
os <<
"
(unknown)
"
;
}
}
};
struct
e_lua_error_message
{ std::string value; };
struct
e_lua_exception
{ std::exception_ptr value; };
//
A noexcept wrapper for a lua_CFunction pointer. We capture the
//
std::current_exception and wrap it in a e_lua_exception object.
template
<
int
(*F)( lua_State * L )>
int
wrap_lua_CFunction
( lua_State * L )
noexcept
{
return
leaf::try_catch
(
[&]
{
return
F
(L);
},
[&]( leaf::error_info
const
& ei )
{
ei.
error
().
load
( e_lua_exception{
std::current_exception
()} );
return
luaL_error
(L,
"
C++ Exception
"
);
//
luaL_error does not return (longjmp).
} );
}
//
This is a C callback with a specific signature, callable from programs
//
written in Lua. If it succeeds, it returns an int answer, by pushing it onto
//
the Lua stack. But "sometimes" it fails, in which case it throws an
//
exception, which will be processed by wrap_lua_CFunction (above).
int
do_work
( lua_State * L )
{
bool
success =
rand
() %
2
;
//
"Sometimes" do_work fails.
if
( success )
{
lua_pushnumber
(L,
42
);
//
Success, push the result on the Lua stack, return to Lua.
return
1
;
}
else
{
leaf::throw_exception
(ec1);
}
}
std::shared_ptr<lua_State>
init_lua_state
()
{
//
Create a new lua_State, we'll use std::shared_ptr for automatic cleanup.
std::shared_ptr<lua_State>
L
(
lua_open
(), &lua_close);
//
Register the do_work function (above) as a C callback, under the global
//
Lua name "do_work". With this, calls from Lua programs to do_work will
//
land in the do_work C function we've registered.
lua_register
( &*L,
"
do_work
"
, &wrap_lua_CFunction<&do_work> );
//
Pass some Lua code as a C string literal to Lua. This creates a global
//
Lua function called "call_do_work", which we will later ask Lua to
//
execute.
luaL_dostring
( &*L,
"
\
\n
function call_do_work()\
\n
return do_work()\
\n
end
"
);
return
L;
}
//
Here we will ask Lua to execute the function call_do_work, which is written
//
in Lua, and returns the value from do_work, which is written in C++ and
//
registered with the Lua interpreter as a C callback.
//
If do_work succeeds, we return the resulting int answer. If it fails, we'll
//
communicate that failure to our caller.
int
call_lua
( lua_State * L )
{
return
leaf::try_catch
(
[&]
{
leaf::error_monitor cur_err;
//
Ask the Lua interpreter to call the global Lua function call_do_work.
lua_getfield
( L,
LUA_GLOBALSINDEX
,
"
call_do_work
"
);
if
(
int
err =
lua_pcall
(L,
0
,
1
,
0
) )
{
std::string msg =
lua_tostring
(L,
1
);
lua_pop
(L,
1
);
//
We got a Lua error which may be the error we're reporting
//
from do_work, or some other error. If it is another error,
//
cur_err.assigned_error_id() will return a new leaf::error_id,
//
otherwise we'll be working with the original error reported
//
by a C++ exception out of do_work.
leaf::throw_exception
( cur_err.
assigned_error_id
().
load
( e_lua_pcall_error{err}, e_lua_error_message{
std::move
(msg)} ) );
}
else
{
//
Success! Just return the int answer.
int
answer =
lua_tonumber
(L, -
1
);
lua_pop
(L,
1
);
return
answer;
}
},
[]( e_lua_exception e ) ->
int
{
//
This is the exception communicated out of wrap_lua_CFunction.
std::rethrow_exception
( e.
value
);
} );
}
int
main
()
{
std::shared_ptr<lua_State> L=
init_lua_state
();
for
(
int
i=
0
; i!=
10
; ++i )
{
leaf::try_catch
(
[&]
{
int
answer =
call_lua
(&*L);
std::cout <<
"
do_work succeeded, answer=
"
<< answer <<
'
\n
'
;
},
[]( do_work_error_code e, e_lua_error_message
const
& msg )
{
std::cout <<
"
Got do_work_error_code =
"
<< e <<
"
,
"
<< msg.
value
<<
"
\n
"
;
},
[]( e_lua_pcall_error
const
& err, e_lua_error_message
const
& msg )
{
std::cout <<
"
Got e_lua_pcall_error,
"
<< err <<
"
,
"
<< msg.
value
<<
"
\n
"
;
},
[]( leaf::error_info
const
& unmatched )
{
std::cerr <<
"
Unknown failure detected
"
<< std::endl <<
"
Cryptic diagnostic information follows
"
<< std::endl <<
unmatched;
} );
}
return
0
;
}
You can’t perform that action at this time.