From 9c1458d9ee4ec1bcccc6e4ed6244c2ef408cdafd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keerthi Vasan <sakeerthi23@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 12:29:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: add a threshold limit for variable size in pretty
 printing exception report

---
 django/views/debug.py | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/views/debug.py b/django/views/debug.py
index c1265bfe6b..9d49f3a0c9 100644
--- a/django/views/debug.py
+++ b/django/views/debug.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import functools
 import inspect
 import itertools
 import re
+import reprlib
 import sys
 import types
 import warnings
@@ -310,6 +311,9 @@ class SafeExceptionReporterFilter:
 class ExceptionReporter:
     """Organize and coordinate reporting on exceptions."""
 
+    repr_instance = reprlib.Repr(maxstring=4096, maxlist=1000)
+    MAX_VAR_SIZE_PRETTY_PRINT = 512 * 1024 # 512KB
+
     @property
     def html_template_path(self):
         return builtin_template_path("technical_500.html")
@@ -348,11 +352,15 @@ class ExceptionReporter:
             self.postmortem = self.exc_value.chain or [self.exc_value]
 
         frames = self.get_traceback_frames()
+
         for i, frame in enumerate(frames):
             if "vars" in frame:
                 frame_vars = []
                 for k, v in frame["vars"]:
-                    v = pprint(v)
+                    if sys.getsizeof(v) > self.MAX_VAR_SIZE_PRETTY_PRINT:
+                        v = self.repr_instance.repr(v)
+                    else:
+                        v = pprint(v)
                     # Trim large blobs of data
                     if len(v) > 4096:
                         v = "%s… <trimmed %d bytes string>" % (v[0:4096], len(v))