Question

I’m trying to catch exceptions on my Mac app so that I can log them in a custom log file. I’m implementing the exception handler like this:

void uncaughtExceptionHandler(NSException *exception) {
    NSLog(@"It Works!");
}

And I’m setting it in my -applicationDidFinishLaunching: method like this:

NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler(&uncaughtExceptionHandler);

Then I cause an exception to test it like this:

[[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"object"] objectAtIndex:1];

The exception gets logged to the console, but my exception handler is not being called.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The solution is to use the ExceptionHandling framework. Here’s how I did it:

In -applicationDidFinishLaunching:

[[NSExceptionHandler defaultExceptionHandler] setExceptionHandlingMask:NSLogAndHandleEveryExceptionMask];
[[NSExceptionHandler defaultExceptionHandler] setDelegate:self];

Then in my App Delegate class I implement to two delegate methods,

- (BOOL)exceptionHandler:(NSExceptionHandler *)sender shouldLogException:(NSException *)exception mask:(NSUInteger)aMask
- (BOOL)exceptionHandler:(NSExceptionHandler *)sender shouldHandleException:(NSException *)exception mask:(NSUInteger)aMask

Now I can catch all exceptions!