Why are all HttpExceptions logged as 'yii\\web\\HttpException:' instead of their real class name in ErrorHandler::logException

[Anubarak]

I went through the commit history but wasn't able to find something useful.
Is there a certain reason why every HTTPException is logged as hard coded yii\web\HttpException instead of the real classname?

yii2/framework/base/ErrorHandler.php

Lines 350 to 359 in 47fb7fc

	public function logException($exception)
	{
	$category = get_class($exception);
	if ($exception instanceof HttpException) {
	$category = 'yii\\web\\HttpException:' . $exception->statusCode;
	} elseif ($exception instanceof \ErrorException) {
	$category .= ':' . $exception->getSeverity();
	}
	Yii::error($exception, $category);
	}

I am trying to filter out one of my HTTP Exceptions in a log, but do not want to filter out all of them. The only way to do that is to extend the error handler class but what is the reason for this change to begin with?

[samdark]

The only reason I can think of is that it may be for the purpose of grouping all such exceptions together and route these by category into separate log target.

[xicond]

yes, so, it's easier to exclude in logger by prefix category for all types of HttpException

[Anubarak]

Thank you very much.
I basically need the opposite. I throw a custom exception which is an instance of HttpException when a required captcha token is missing and since my logs are full of those recently I wanted to filter these (and only these) from my main logs.

[rob006]

You can do this by creating custom ErrorHandler and overriding logException().