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Logging all uncaught exceptions Eclipse E4

I'm logging all my caught exceptions in my database using Logback. Now I need to log all the exceptions that are not caught. How can I log all the exceptions in E4 that are thrown and not handled?

Solution

  • If you put a class implementing org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.IEventLoopAdvisor in the application context its eventLoopException method will be called for each unhandled exception.

    The @PostContextCreate method of your LifeCycle class is a good place to do this:

    @PostContextCreate
public void postContextCreate(final IEclipseContext context)
{
  context.set(IEventLoopAdvisor.class, yourEventLoopClass);

  ...
}

    Note that this is an internal interface but this usage seems to be valid.