document that parseLine can return null #41
Description
For some reason, at the top of the stack of one particular error, I have only the error message, rather than a line with a filename. Therefore, my code ran into an issue because it called stack.parseLine(firstLineOfStack) and assumed this method would return an object. I did not realize that this method could return null. I assumed that if it could not parse a line, it would return an object where the properties are set to empty values, or perhaps throw an error.
I believe this possibility should be documented.
But thanks for the great library!
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conartist6 commentedon Nov 1, 2021
This is fixed in stack-tools, which throws an error if a stack frame cannot be parsed. It can also do this more safely because unparseable stack frames are likely to be messages from nested errors, for example those produced by nested-error-stacks.
stack-toolsoffers first class support for this, for example by allowing you to write this: