Exception handling is a programming language construct or computer hardware mechanism designed to handle the occurrence of exceptions, special conditions that change the normal flow of program execution.
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Encapsulating common Try-Catch code. Is this a known pattern? Is it good or bad?
In an effort to reduce code duplication, I often use and have used this style to capture handling of exceptions on a boundary of an application:
Given the following extension methods:
public static ...
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I think I'm not using Try Except properly in this Python code
Please offer some advice for this code. It all works, but I know that its messy and I don't think the Exception catching is doing what I want it to. Thanks in advance for any and all advice...
def ...
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LPTHW - ex48 - Handling exceptions and unit testing
This is my solution to the exercise 48 of Learn Python the hard way by Zed Shaw. Please visit the link for testing suite and requirements.
I'm worried about my the word banks I have created (COMPASS, ...
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HttpClient error handling
I would be happy to hear feedback on my implementation of httpclient. I am not so strong with error handling so I want to improve. My thought process behind this was that IOExceptions can be ...
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Is this right way to implement Abort, Retry and Ignore activity pattern?
I've a bunch of sequential activities. These are long running. Once an activity is complete, it can't be rolled back. Now something deep down the line fails. Now I've few options
Report this to end ...
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PHP - Is this proper use of exceptions for error handling within classes?
I've searched plenty on this topic and have gotten a lot of good (but different) results. Some of the results weren't quite related and it does seem to be a matter of preference in the end, but I'm ...
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Could this php error/exception handling be better?
I'm VERY new to error/exception handling, previously just echoing everything to screen, and am trying to really clean up my code. My goal was to log everything but only show the user a friendly ...
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extending Exception to allow for auto appending class name on exception message
Got this idea from the php.net website on extending exceptions. The main thing I wanted with this was to have the exception name auto imprinted on the exception message, so I wouldn't have to write it ...
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How can I improve CreateGenre() function?
I use this function in my wordpress site to add genres to an album:
What is it that makes this code so bulky?
Is it have for the server or it just looks like?
/**
* Creates a genere. If one already ...
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Exception handling continuing the excecution
This code is for continuing the execution after an exception, and this is ugly:
int step=0;
do{
try{
switch(step)
{
case 0:
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Asserting when cleanup is required
I've been looking at ways to use asserts in programs that must do some kind of cleanup on fatal errors, and have arrived at the following pattern (PROJECT being replaced by the name of the project):
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How to reduce the amount of try/catch in my code?
I have the following code that checks for three different properties. Unfortunately each call can throw up to four exceptions that I all have to catch. Can I some how make the code more readable by ...
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Learning Simple Operating System Tools: Experienced Tips?
Operating system code, I've noticed, has two outstanding properties:
1. It's everywhere, and vitally important to functional software
2. It has *lots* of exceptions.
Please give me some pointers on ...
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Is it acceptable to pass an Exception into a function that then may or may not throw it?
I am still getting the hang of Exception Handling in PHP; Here is the scenario where I am using the convention:
There are times where I have a SQL query that I need to turn into an object, so I wrote ...
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Could this ExecuteScalar call be written better?
I came across this code in our project today. Where possible I'm trying to leave the code base in a better shape than I found it, as I go along, and this method jumped out at me for a number of ...
