Make logged stacktraces more useful

loggers/cli/cli.go

@@ -71,51 +71,25 @@ func (h *Handler) HandleLog(e *log.Entry) error {
 			continue
 		}
 
-		var br = color2.New(color2.Bold, color2.FgRed)
 		if err, ok := e.Fields.Get("error").(error); ok {
-			fmt.Fprintf(h.Writer, "\n%s%+v\n\n", br.Sprintf("Stacktrace:"), getErrorStack(err, false))
+			br := color2.New(color2.Bold, color2.FgRed)
+
+			if e, ok := errors.Cause(err).(tracer); ok {
+				st := e.StackTrace()
+
+				l := len(st)
+				if l > 10 {
+					l = 10
+				}
+
+				fmt.Fprintf(h.Writer, "\n%s%+v\n\n", br.Sprintf("Stacktrace:"), st[0:l])
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintf(h.Writer, "\n%s\n%+v\n\n", br.Sprintf("Stacktrace:"), err)
+			}
 		} else {
-			fmt.Fprintf(h.Writer, "\n%s%+v\n\n", br.Sprintf("Invalid Error:"), err)
+			fmt.Printf("\n\nINVALID ERROR\n\n")
 		}
 	}
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-func getErrorStack(err error, i bool) errors.StackTrace {
-	e, ok := err.(tracer)
-	if !ok {
-		if i {
-			// Just abort out of this and return a stacktrace leading up to this point. It isn't perfect
-			// but it'll at least include what function lead to this being called which we can then handle.
-			if e, ok = errors.WithMessage(err, "failed to generate stacktrace for caught error").(tracer); ok {
-				return e.StackTrace()
-			}
-
-			// The errors.WrapIf did not return a interface compatible with `tracer`, so
-			// we don't have an easy way to get the stacktrace, this should probably be changed
-			// at some point, but without this the application may panic when handling some errors.
-			return nil
-		}
-
-		return getErrorStack(errors.WithMessage(err, err.Error()), true)
-	}
-
-	st := e.StackTrace()
-
-	l := len(st)
-	// If this was an internal stack generation we're going to skip over the top four items in the stack
-	// trace since they'll point to the error that was generated by this function.
-	f := 0
-	if i {
-		f = 5
-	}
-
-	if i && l > 9 {
-		l = 9
-	} else if !i && l > 5 {
-		l = 5
-	}
-
-	return st[f:l]
-}