Module: gears.protected_call
Safely call a function and handle errors using gears.debug.
This is a pcall/xpcall wrapper. All it does is to integrate into the AwesomeWM-wide error handling and logging.
Info:
- Copyright: 2016 Uli Schlachter
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Originally authored by: Uli Schlachter
(Full contributors list available on our github project)
Static module functions
| gears.protected_call (func, ...) -> () | Call a function in protected mode and handle error-reporting. |
Static module functions
- 🔗 gears.protected_call (func, ...) -> ()
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Call a function in protected mode and handle error-reporting.
If the function call succeeds, all results of the function are returned.
Otherwise, an error message is printed and nothing is returned.
Parameters:
Name Type(s) Description func function The function to call ... Arguments to the function Returns:
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The result of the given function, or nothing if an error occurred.