From f5aff9751c7ecf96510bb2eedf7eae5851bd8f25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles-Henri Bruyand <charles-henri.bruyand@open-xchange.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:33:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dnsdist: allow known exception types to be converted to
 string

---
 pdns/dnsdist-lua-bindings.cc | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pdns/dnsdist-lua-bindings.cc b/pdns/dnsdist-lua-bindings.cc
index bac46f77f..988320621 100644
--- a/pdns/dnsdist-lua-bindings.cc
+++ b/pdns/dnsdist-lua-bindings.cc
@@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ void setupLuaBindings(bool client)
       g_outputBuffer+="\n";
     });
 
+  /* Exceptions */
+  g_lua.registerFunction<string(std::exception_ptr::*)()>("__tostring", [](const std::exception_ptr& eptr) {
+      try {
+        if (eptr) {
+          std::rethrow_exception(eptr);
+        }
+      } catch(const std::exception& e) {
+        return string(e.what());
+      } catch(const PDNSException& e) {
+        return e.reason;
+      } catch(...) {
+        return string("Unknown exception");
+      }
+      return string("No exception");
+    });
   /* ServerPolicy */
   g_lua.writeFunction("newServerPolicy", [](string name, policyfunc_t policy) { return ServerPolicy{name, policy, true};});
   g_lua.registerMember("name", &ServerPolicy::name);
-- 
2.49.0