NAME

       WebAuth::Exception - Rich exception for errors from WebAuth API methods

SYNOPSIS

           my $token;
           my $wa = WebAuth->new;
           eval {
               $token = $wa->token_decode ($input);
               # ...
           };
           if ($@ && ref ($@) eq 'WebAuth::Exception') {
               my $e = $@;
               print 'status: ', $e->status, "\n";
               print 'message: ', $e->error_message, "\n";
               print 'detail: ', $e->detail_message, "\n";
               print "$e\n";
               die $e->verbose_message;
           }

DESCRIPTION

       All WebAuth methods, and most methods in WebAuth::Key, WebAuth::Keyring, WebAuth::KeyringEntry, and
       WebAuth::Token::* classes, will throw an exception on error.  Exceptions produced by the underlying C API
       call will be represented by a WebAuth::Exception object.

       You can use this object like you would normally use $@ and print it out or do string comparisons with it
       and it will convert to the string representation of the complete error message.  But you can also access
       the structured data stored inside the exception by treating it as an object and using the methods defined
       below.

METHODS

       status ()
           Returns  the  WebAuth  status  code  for  the  exception,  which will be one of the WebAuth::WA_ERR_*
           constants.

       error_message ()
           Returns the WebAuth error message.  For most WebAuth functions, this will consist of a generic  error
           message followed by more detail about this specific error in parentheses.

       detail_message ()
           Returns  the "detail" message in the exception.  The detail message is additional information created
           with the exception when it was raised and is usually the name of the WebAuth C function  that  raised
           the exception.

       verbose_message ()
           Returns  a  verbose  error  message,  which  consists  of all information available in the exception,
           including the status code, error message, line number  and  file,  and  any  detail  message  in  the
           exception.

       to_string ()
           This  method  is  called  if the exception is interpolated into a string.  It is a wrapper around the
           verbose_message method.

       spaceship ([STRING], [SWAP])
           This method is called if the exception object is compared to a string via cmp.  It will  compare  the
           given string to the verbose error message and return the result.  If SWAP is set, it will reverse the
           order to compare the given string to the verbose error.

AUTHORS

       Roland Schemers and Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

SEE ALSO

       WebAuth(3)

       This module is part of WebAuth.  The current version is available from <http://webauth.stanford.edu/>.

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