Vm2: Add support for "correct" stack traces for errors in the sandbox

This would be awesome. I'm trying to track down a coding mistake right now and having a fiendishly hard time without the line number

If you're running test cases that you know to be safe, you can temporarily replace vm2 with the native vm to track down the error.

I'd like this feature too. Happy to pitch in to write it if someone points me in the right direction.

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Turns out it’s not trivial to replace vm2 with Native vm as there are api incompatibilities, hope this can stay open!

@patriksimek, I devised a simple implementation based on an exception parser/rewriter. I think it would be worth it to integrate it in vm2 as an optional error handler.

const StackTracey = require ('stacktracey');
const { VM } = require('vm2');

const sourceCode = `function f() {
    throw Exception('e');
}
f();`;
const scriptName = "hello_world.js";

process.on("uncaughtException",  e => {
    if (!e.stack.includes("/node_modules/vm2/")) {
        // This is not a vm2 error, so print it normally
        console.log(e);
        return;
    }
    const oldStack = new StackTracey(e);
    const newStack = [];
    for (const line of oldStack) {
        // Discard internal code
        if (line.file.includes("/cjs"))
            continue;
        if (line.thirdParty && line.file.includes("/node_modules/vm2/"))
            continue;
        if (line.callee == "Script.runInContext")
            continue;
        // Replace the default filename with the user-provided one
        if (line.fileName == "vm.js")
            line.fileRelative = line.fileShort = line.fileName = scriptName;
        newStack.push(line);
    }
    console.log("[vm2] A clean stack trace follows:");
    console.log(new StackTracey(newStack).pretty);
});

const vm = new VM();
vm.run(sourceCode, scriptName);

The above code would print:

ReferenceError: Exception is not defined
    at f (vm.js:2:2)
    at vm.js:4:1
    at Script.runInContext (vm.js:135:20)
    at VM.run (/tmp/vm2-test/node_modules/vm2/lib/main.js:210:72)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/vm2-test/index.js:33:4)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:805:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:816:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:672:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:612:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:604:3)
[vm2] A clean stack trace follows:
at f            hello_world.js:2
at              hello_world.js:4
at <anonymous>  index.js:33       vm.run(sourceCode, scriptName);

I haven't had a chance to test this library but I recently used the vm module and accomplished accurate stack trace numbers by setting the appropriate line offset when creating a new vm.Script.

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Figured I’d comment as this issue + suggestions are still relevant for me!

Very relevant to me too.

@patriksimek can @CapacitorSet's implementation or something along those lines be integrated in the project?
Thanks.

Patrik, does the implementation sketch look okay overall? If so I can make a PR and we can work from there.

@CapacitorSet Yes, I'll be happy to review a PR. Some notes:

• The vm.run method doesn't accept the second parameter - that's why the script name is ignored. Currently, you need to create a VMScript with the name specified first. But that can be easily improved.
• Is there a way to avoid using external lib? Would be nice to stick with zero deps.

Just leaving a comment to notify people who are subscribed to this issue -- I opened a PR, so you can track the progress there.