// Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Emil Dotchevski // Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Second Spectrum, 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 propagate error objects out // of a C-callback, and converting them to leaf::result as soon as control // reaches C++. extern "C" { #include "lua.h" #include "lauxlib.h" } #include #include #include #include #include namespace leaf = boost::leaf; enum do_work_error_code { ec1=1, ec2 }; namespace boost { namespace leaf { template<> struct is_e_type: std::true_type { }; } } struct e_lua_pcall_error { int value; }; struct e_lua_error_message { std::string value; }; // This is a C callback function with a specific signature, made accessible to 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 calls luaL_error. This causes the Lua interpreter to abort and pop // back into the C++ code which called it (see call_lua below). int do_work( lua_State * L ) { bool success=rand()%2; if( success ) { lua_pushnumber(L,42); // Return 42 to the calling Lua program. return 1; } else { // Remarkably, the Lua interpreter is exception-safe. So, just throw. throw leaf::exception(std::exception(),ec1); } } std::shared_ptr init_lua_state() { // Create a new lua_State, we'll use std::shared_ptr for automatic cleanup. std::shared_ptr 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", &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 ) { // 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) ) { // Something went wrong with the call, so we'll throw std::exception. // This is definitely not a do_work failure, because it throws on error. auto propagate = leaf::preload( e_lua_error_message{lua_tostring(L,1)} ); lua_pop(L,1); throw leaf::exception( std::exception(), e_lua_pcall_error{err} ); } else { // Success! Just return the int answer. int answer=lua_tonumber(L,-1); lua_pop(L,1); return answer; } } int main() noexcept { std::shared_ptr L=init_lua_state(); for( int i=0; i!=10; ++i ) { leaf::try_( [&] { int answer = call_lua(&*L); std::cout << "do_work succeeded, answer=" << answer << '\n'; }, [ ]( do_work_error_code e ) { std::cout << "Got do_work_error_code = " << e << "!\n"; }, [ ]( e_lua_pcall_error const & err, e_lua_error_message const & msg ) { std::cout << "Got e_lua_pcall_error, Lua error code = " << err.value << ", " << msg.value << "\n"; }, [ ]( leaf::error_info const & unmatched ) { std::cerr << "Unknown failure detected" << std::endl << "Cryptic diagnostic information follows" << std::endl << unmatched; } ); } return 0; }