Various improvements related to stack trace logging and exception display

grace-bootstrap/src/main/groovy/org/grails/exceptions/reporting/DefaultStackTraceFilterer.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2011-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2011-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
 /**
  * Default implementation of StackTraceFilterer.
  *
- * @since 2.0
  * @author Graeme Rocher
+ * @author Michael Yan
+ * @since 2.0
  */
 public class DefaultStackTraceFilterer implements StackTraceFilterer {
 
@@ -37,16 +38,18 @@ public class DefaultStackTraceFilterer implements StackTraceFilterer {
     private static final String[] DEFAULT_INTERNAL_PACKAGES = new String[] {
             "org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.",
             "org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.",
+            "org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.",
             "org.codehaus.groovy.ast.",
             "org.springframework.web.filter",
             "org.springframework.boot.actuate",
-            "org.mortbay.",
             "groovy.lang.",
             "org.apache.catalina.",
             "org.apache.coyote.",
             "org.apache.tomcat.",
             "net.sf.cglib.proxy.",
             "sun.",
+            "jdk.internal.reflect.",
+            "java.lang.",
             "java.lang.reflect.",
             "org.springframework.boot.devtools.",
             "org.springsource.loaded.",
@@ -69,28 +72,33 @@ public DefaultStackTraceFilterer(boolean shouldFilter) {
         this.packagesToFilter.addAll(Arrays.asList(DEFAULT_INTERNAL_PACKAGES));
     }
 
+    @Override
     public void addInternalPackage(String name) {
         if (name == null) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Package name cannot be null");
         }
         this.packagesToFilter.add(name);
     }
 
+    @Override
     public void setCutOffPackage(String cutOffPackage) {
         this.cutOffPackage = cutOffPackage;
     }
 
+    @Override
     public Throwable filter(Throwable source, boolean recursive) {
         if (recursive) {
             Throwable current = source;
             while (current != null) {
                 current = filter(current);
                 current = current.getCause();
             }
+            return current;
         }
         return filter(source);
     }
 
+    @Override
     public Throwable filter(Throwable source) {
         if (this.shouldFilter) {
             StackTraceElement[] trace = source.getStackTrace();
@@ -149,8 +157,14 @@ protected boolean isApplicationClass(String className) {
         return true;
     }
 
+    @Override
     public void setShouldFilter(boolean shouldFilter) {
         this.shouldFilter = shouldFilter;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean isShouldFilter() {
+        return this.shouldFilter;
+    }
+
 }

grace-bootstrap/src/main/groovy/org/grails/exceptions/reporting/StackTraceFilterer.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2011-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2011-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
 /**
  * Improves the output of stack traces produced by exceptions in a Grails application.
  *
- * @since 2.0
  * @author Graeme Rocher
+ * @author Michaael Yan
+ * @since 2.0
  */
 public interface StackTraceFilterer {
 
@@ -62,4 +63,9 @@ public interface StackTraceFilterer {
      */
     void setShouldFilter(boolean shouldFilter);
 
+    /**
+     * @return boolean Whether to filter stack traces or not
+     */
+    boolean isShouldFilter();
+
 }

grace-core/src/main/groovy/grails/validation/ValidationException.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2009-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2009-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  * Thrown when validation fails during a .save().
  *
  * @author Jeff Brown
+ * @author Michael Yan
  * @since 1.2
  */
 public class ValidationException extends GrailsException {
@@ -54,8 +55,11 @@ public static String formatErrors(Errors errors) {
 
     public static String formatErrors(Errors errors, String msg) {
         StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
-        if (msg != null && msg.length() > 0) {
-            b.append(msg).append(":\n");
+        if (msg != null && !msg.isEmpty()) {
+            b.append(msg);
+        }
+        if (errors.hasErrors()) {
+            b.append(":\n");
         }
         for (ObjectError error : errors.getAllErrors()) {
             b.append("- ").append(error).append("\n");

grace-core/src/main/groovy/org/grails/core/exceptions/DefaultErrorsPrinter.groovy

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import org.grails.exceptions.reporting.StackTracePrinter
  *
  * @author Graeme Rocher
  * @author Marc Palmer
+ * @author Michael Yan
  * @since 2.0
  */
 class DefaultErrorsPrinter extends DefaultStackTracePrinter implements CodeSnippetPrinter {
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ class DefaultErrorsPrinter extends DefaultStackTracePrinter implements CodeSnipp
                     }
                 }
 
-                if (!className || !lineNumber) {
+                if (!className || lineNumber < 0) {
                     continue
                 }
 

grace-core/src/test/groovy/org/grails/exception/reporting/StackTracePrinterSpec.groovy

@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ class StackTracePrinterSpec extends Specification {
 
         then:"The formatting is correctly applied"
             result != null
-            result.contains '|     7 | callMe . . . . . . in test.FooController'
+            result.contains '->>  7 | callMe             in test.FooController'
     }
 
-    @Requires({jvm.isJava8()})
     void "Test pretty print nested stack trace"() {
       given: "a controller that throws an exception"
             final gcl = new GroovyClassLoader()

grace-gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/grails/gradle/plugin/core/GrailsGradlePlugin.groovy

@@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ class GrailsGradlePlugin extends GroovyPlugin {
             task.systemProperty Metadata.APPLICATION_VERSION, project.version
             task.systemProperty Metadata.APPLICATION_GRAILS_VERSION, grailsVersion
             task.systemProperty Environment.KEY, defaultGrailsEnv
-            task.systemProperty Environment.FULL_STACKTRACE, System.getProperty(Environment.FULL_STACKTRACE) ?: ''
             if (task.minHeapSize == null) {
                 task.minHeapSize = '768m'
             }

grace-plugin-controllers/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/controllers/ControllersPluginConfiguration.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2022-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2022-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import jakarta.servlet.MultipartConfigElement;
 import jakarta.servlet.Servlet;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
@@ -43,7 +44,10 @@
 import grails.config.Config;
 import grails.config.Settings;
 import grails.core.GrailsApplication;
+import grails.util.Environment;
 
+import org.grails.exceptions.reporting.DefaultStackTraceFilterer;
+import org.grails.exceptions.reporting.StackTraceFilterer;
 import org.grails.web.errors.GrailsExceptionResolver;
 import org.grails.web.filters.HiddenHttpMethodFilter;
 import org.grails.web.filters.OrderedHiddenHttpMethodFilter;
@@ -81,11 +85,30 @@ public FilterRegistrationBean<GrailsWebRequestFilter> grailsWebRequestFilter(
     }
 
     @Bean
-    public GrailsExceptionResolver exceptionHandler() {
+    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    public StackTraceFilterer stackTraceFilterer(ObjectProvider<GrailsApplication> grailsApplicationProvider) {
+        GrailsApplication grailsApplication = grailsApplicationProvider.getIfAvailable();
+        Config config = grailsApplication.getConfig();
+        boolean shouldFilter = !config.getProperty(Environment.FULL_STACKTRACE, Boolean.class, Boolean.FALSE);
+        Class<?> filtererClass = config.getProperty(Settings.SETTING_LOGGING_STACKTRACE_FILTER_CLASS,
+                Class.class, DefaultStackTraceFilterer.class);
+
+        StackTraceFilterer filtererBean = BeanUtils.instantiateClass(filtererClass, StackTraceFilterer.class);
+        filtererBean.setShouldFilter(shouldFilter);
+        return filtererBean;
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public GrailsExceptionResolver exceptionHandler(ObjectProvider<GrailsApplication> grailsApplicationProvider,
+            ObjectProvider<StackTraceFilterer> stackTraceFiltererObjectProvider) {
         GrailsExceptionResolver exceptionResolver = new GrailsExceptionResolver();
+        exceptionResolver.setGrailsApplication(grailsApplicationProvider.getIfAvailable());
+        exceptionResolver.setStackTraceFilterer(stackTraceFiltererObjectProvider.getIfAvailable());
+
         Properties exceptionMappings = new Properties();
         exceptionMappings.put("java.lang.Exception", "/error");
         exceptionResolver.setExceptionMappings(exceptionMappings);
+
         return exceptionResolver;
     }
 

grace-plugin-controllers/src/main/resources/META-INF/additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
       "type": "java.lang.String",
       "defaultValue": "\/static\/**"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "grails.full.stacktrace",
+      "description": "Whether the display of full stack traces is needed.",
+      "type": "java.lang.Boolean",
+      "defaultValue": false
+    },
     {
       "name": "grails.exceptionresolver.logRequestParameters",
       "description": "Whether to log request parameters in the console.",

grace-plugin-gsp/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/GroovyPagesAutoConfiguration.java

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertiesFactoryBean;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
@@ -157,7 +158,6 @@ public CachingGrailsConventionGroovyPageLocator groovyPageLocator(GroovyPagesPro
     }
 
     @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
     public ResourceLocator grailsResourceLocator(GroovyPagesProperties groovyPagesProperties, ObjectProvider<GrailsApplication> grailsApplication) {
         Config config = grailsApplication.getIfAvailable().getConfig();
         Environment env = Environment.getCurrent();
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ public ResourceLocator grailsResourceLocator(GroovyPagesProperties groovyPagesPr
                 (developmentMode && env == Environment.DEVELOPMENT) ? 0L : groovyPagesProperties.getReload().getInterval());
 
         CachingGroovyPageStaticResourceLocator groovyPageStaticResourceLocator = new CachingGroovyPageStaticResourceLocator();
+        groovyPageStaticResourceLocator.setSearchLocation(BuildSettings.BASE_DIR.getAbsolutePath());
 
         if (enableReload) {
             groovyPageStaticResourceLocator.setCacheTimeout(gspCacheTimeout);
@@ -178,7 +179,8 @@ public ResourceLocator grailsResourceLocator(GroovyPagesProperties groovyPagesPr
 
     @Bean
     @ConditionalOnMissingBean
-    public ErrorsViewStackTracePrinter errorsViewStackTracePrinter(ObjectProvider<ResourceLocator> grailsResourceLocator) {
+    public ErrorsViewStackTracePrinter errorsViewStackTracePrinter(
+            @Qualifier("grailsResourceLocator") ObjectProvider<ResourceLocator> grailsResourceLocator) {
         return new ErrorsViewStackTracePrinter(grailsResourceLocator.getObject());
     }