Hi,

When using bmcheck on a Byteman script I am seeing two warnings. The script attempts to use a scoped reference to an exception in an expression.

Looking at the documentation I don't see exceptions listed in the Rule Expressions section. Is a rule expression allowed to use an exception reference ?

This is the WARNING message:

$ ~/java/jboss/byteman/byteman-download-2.1.0/bin/bmcheck.sh -cp ~/java/projects/sample-byteman-verify-error/src/main/java/ ~/java/projects/sample-byteman-verify-error/src/main/resources/ExceptionCauseCounter.btm

checking rule debug cause of exception against class org.jboss.perf.TimedOutExceptionThrower

WARNING : Warning type checking rule "debug cause of exception" loaded from /home/whitingjr/java/projects/sample-byteman-verify-error/src/main/resources/ExceptionCauseCounter.btm line 10 against method main(java.lang.String[]) void

org.jboss.byteman.rule.exception.TypeWarningException: unknown local variable $e for method main(java.lang.String[]) void

WARNING : Warning type checking rule "debug cause of exception" loaded from /home/whitingjr/java/projects/sample-byteman-verify-error/src/main/resources/ExceptionCauseCounter.btm line 10

org.jboss.byteman.rule.exception.TypeWarningException: failed to find any matching trigger method in class org.jboss.perf.TimedOutExceptionThrower

TestScript: 2 total warnings

            2 type warnings

This is a sample application and Byteman script. I was using.

package org.jboss.perf;

import java.lang.Exception;

public class TimedOutExceptionThrower

{

   public static void main(String args[])

   {

      try

      {

         throw new Exception("Connetion timed out");

      }

      catch (Exception e)

      {

         System.out.println("An exceptional situation ocurred.");

      }

   }

}

########################################################################

#

# Print a debug message when the cause has "timed" in the message text

#

RULE debug cause of exception

CLASS org.jboss.perf.TimedOutExceptionThrower

METHOD main

AT LINE 15

IF -1 != $e.getMessage().indexOf("timed")

DO

   debug("Byteman rule has identified a significant situation.")

ENDRULE

Regards,

Jeremy