Optional
causeOptional
stackStatic
BUILT_Static
CONTEXT_Static
stackReturns a string representation of an object.
Static
captureCreates a .stack
property on targetObject
, which when accessed returns
a string representing the location in the code at which
Error.captureStackTrace()
was called.
const myObject = {};
Error.captureStackTrace(myObject);
myObject.stack; // Similar to `new Error().stack`
The first line of the trace will be prefixed with
${myObject.name}: ${myObject.message}
.
The optional constructorOpt
argument accepts a function. If given, all frames
above constructorOpt
, including constructorOpt
, will be omitted from the
generated stack trace.
The constructorOpt
argument is useful for hiding implementation
details of error generation from the user. For instance:
function a() {
b();
}
function b() {
c();
}
function c() {
// Create an error without stack trace to avoid calculating the stack trace twice.
const { stackTraceLimit } = Error;
Error.stackTraceLimit = 0;
const error = new Error();
Error.stackTraceLimit = stackTraceLimit;
// Capture the stack trace above function b
Error.captureStackTrace(error, b); // Neither function c, nor b is included in the stack trace
throw error;
}
a();
Optional
constructorOpt: FunctionStatic
prepare
The
Error.stackTraceLimit
property specifies the number of stack frames collected by a stack trace (whether generated bynew Error().stack
orError.captureStackTrace(obj)
).The default value is
10
but may be set to any valid JavaScript number. Changes will affect any stack trace captured after the value has been changed.If set to a non-number value, or set to a negative number, stack traces will not capture any frames.