Add-ons using the techniques described in this document are considered a legacy technology in Firefox. Don't use these techniques to develop new add-ons. Use WebExtensions instead. If you maintain an add-on which uses the techniques described here, consider migrating it to use WebExtensions.
From Firefox 53 onwards, no new legacy add-ons will be accepted on addons.mozilla.org (AMO).
From Firefox 57 onwards, WebExtensions will be the only supported extension type, and Firefox will not load other types.
Even before Firefox 57, changes coming up in the Firefox platform will break many legacy extensions. These changes include multiprocess Firefox (e10s), sandboxing, and multiple content processes. Legacy extensions that are affected by these changes should migrate to WebExtensions if they can. See the "Compatibility Milestones" document for more.
A wiki page containing resources, migration paths, office hours, and more, is available to help developers transition to the new technologies.
Experimental
Functionality similar to Python's traceback module.
Usage
Tracebacks are stored in JSON format. The stack is represented as an array in which the most recent stack frame is the last element; each element thus represents a stack frame and has the following keys:
filename |
The name of the file that the stack frame takes place in. |
lineNo |
The line number is being executed at the stack frame. |
funcName |
The name of the function being executed at the stack frame, or null if the function is anonymous or the stack frame is being executed in a top-level script or module. |
See nsIException for more information.
Globals
Functions
fromException(exception)
Attempts to extract the traceback from exception.
Parameters
exception : exception
exception where exception is an nsIException.
Returns
traceback : JSON representation of the traceback or null if not found.
get()
Returns
JSON : Returns the JSON representation of the stack at the point that this function is called.
format(tbOrException)
Given a JSON representation of the stack or an exception instance, returns a formatted plain text representation of it, similar to Python's formatted stack tracebacks. If no argument is provided, the stack at the point this function is called is used.
Parameters
tbOrException : object