From 612d9eeb2332ccec271ad56f90411293e18ce19c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: csausdev <gareth.jones@sensis.com.au>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:59:50 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] small tweak to exception handling

---
 lib/log4js.js   | 2 +-
 package.json    | 2 +-
 test/logging.js | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/log4js.js b/lib/log4js.js
index a840be2..8e88217 100644
--- a/lib/log4js.js
+++ b/lib/log4js.js
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ module.exports = function (fileSystem, standardOutput, configPaths) {
         if (exception && exception.message && exception.name) {
             this.exception = exception;
         } else if (exception) {
-            this.exception = new Error(exception);
+            this.exception = new Error(sys.inspect(exception));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3ad42ae..b2eb3e8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
    "name": "log4js",
-   "version": "0.2.1",
+   "version": "0.2.2",
    "description": "Port of Log4js to work with node.",
    "keywords": [
        "logging",
diff --git a/test/logging.js b/test/logging.js
index 8e15e1d..0e4cc41 100644
--- a/test/logging.js
+++ b/test/logging.js
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ vows.describe('log4js').addBatch({
 		logger.trace("Trace event 2");
 		logger.warn("Warning event");
                 logger.error("Aargh!", new Error("Pants are on fire!"));
-                logger.error("Simulated CouchDB problem", JSON.stringify({ err: 127, cause: "incendiary underwear" }));
+                logger.error("Simulated CouchDB problem", { err: 127, cause: "incendiary underwear" });
 		return events;
 	    },
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ vows.describe('log4js').addBatch({
 
             'should convert things that claim to be errors into Error objects': function (events) {
                 assert.instanceOf(events[3].exception, Error);
-                assert.equal(events[3].exception.message, '{"err":127,"cause":"incendiary underwear"}');
+                assert.equal(events[3].exception.message, "{ err: 127, cause: 'incendiary underwear' }");
             },
                 
 	},