jdobrzanski

jdobrzanski

Get "Last Message" during rescue inside a GenServer

There is a very useful error log that prints if I don’t recuse an exception from within a GenServer.

GenServer {[GENSERVER NAME HERE]} terminating
  ...
Last message (from #PID[PID HERE]): [ARGS TO THE HANDLE CALL HERE]
State: [GENSERVER STATE HERE]

I’ve dug around the elixir code base but can’t find how {'** Generic server ' ++ _, [name, last, state, reason | client]} is getting set in elixir/lib/logger/lib/logger.ex. Most importantly I want last (which is [ARGS TO THE HANDLE CALL HERE]) for my own logging purposes. Hoping someone has a way to access this in the recuse block of a try and not an answer that involves somehow storing the message args from the handle_call function…

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hauleth

hauleth

There is no other way than storing that message on your own. gen_server does exactly that internally.

Question is - what do you need that for?

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hauleth

hauleth

There is no other way than storing that message on your own somehow. If you want to show this as a part of log message then you put that information into logger metadata.

The gen_server loop in highly simplified form does exactly that (in Elixir for clarity):

def loop(state) do
  msg =
    receive do
      message -> message
    end

  new_state =
    try do
      handle_message(message, state)
    catch
      kind, value ->
          :logger.error(%{last_msg: msg, kind: kind, value: value})
          :erlang.raise(kind, value, __STACKTRACE__)
    end

  loop(new_state)
end

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jdobrzanski

jdobrzanski

Thanks, hauleth, that was helpful!

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