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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Pausing a SwingWorker with a Timer
I made a SwingWorker which is fetching tweets using the twitter4j API.
The twitter API will allow 180 queries every 15 minutes, and then throw an exception with ...
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Exception handling for HTTP request timer
This method is used to check a URL and return the time it takes to check and the HTTP status code:
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Retry loop for asynchronous HTTP requests
I've got a method that needs to PUT data to a web API. Sometimes the connection fails, so I needed a way to do retries, but if the retries fail, I still need to capture the exception and re-throw it.
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Dice-rolling program
I am sort of new to programming. I would like to understand the code areas that are garbage and could be better written keeping the exact (if possible) behavior the code has now.
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Handling exceptions for providing log information while debugging
I am catching exceptions to provide better information for the logs to make debugging easier in production. I was wondering if this code follows best practices as I'm not really handling the error ...
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Selenium Java: errorRecovery
I have the following code to select an image using Selenium, only now I have added an errorRecovery. Is there is a better way to right the code in the ...
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Validation/error handling of user input values
This is a tiny learning program that lead to an interesting question: how can I best/most elegantly handle user entered numbers? This method works, fails cleanly, and reads well. It doesn't apply to ...
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Simple Operations Calculator
I'm practicing Swing effects. Everything works but for some reason I get a ton of error messages in the command prompt when the fields are empty, despite my attempt to add some exception handling ...
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Is this acceptable usage of try/catch and database transactions?
I am using try/catch syntax in combination with a database transaction to (hopefully) prevent partial registrations.
I am ...
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Improvements to nsiZipReader and nsIScriptableInputStream
I wrote this code to list contents of an XPI file and then read the contents in it.
I was thinking areas of improvment:
I put the zr.open in the ...
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Branching with multiple Try
I have a series of four method calls that all return Try[Something], with the last returning Try[Unit]. Something like this:
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Verifying the type of an AggregateException's inner exception in a unit test
I've got the following code inside an integration test.
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JSON fetcher for Eclipse plugin — Is this exemplary code for exception handling?
I am planning to use this code as a "good exception handling" code example in one of my papers. It is for a client module of an Eclipse plugin. How does it look?
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Exception handling with expression lambda in Presenter class
Following is a code snippet from MVP Win Forms application.
My DAL doesn't handle exceptions and it will be propagated up to the calling method in the presenter classes where the exception will be ...
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Follow Up post: Proper handling of exceptions in MVP
This is a follow up post of my early question "Proper handling of exceptions in MVP"
So based on the answers I re edited the post and now my exception handling code looks like this...
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Proper handling of exceptions in MVP
In my DAL currently I'm handling exceptions as follows. Is it in an acceptable level?
Note : I'm using MVP in this Winforms application.
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Will this Circuit Breaker catch fire?
I was going to post this code as an answer to a recent question, but I wrote this code a little while ago (like, a year ago; if I recall correctly I wrote this after reading this article) and I'd like ...
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Scrubbing user input
I'm taking user input from a file in form (1, 2, 3) to create a color, and I just wanted to know if I was taking most cases into account, and if there is any way I ...
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Is it bad when my code is throwing exceptions, but doesn't crash during runtime?
Here's part of code in Java for battleships game I'm working on:
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Using finally with return statement or not
I was wondering if it is the proper way to always put the return statement of a function with a try-catch clause in the finally ...
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proper way of handling exception while reading user input from file
I am parsing a text file (UTF-8) and checking for several conditions that need to be satisfied for the code to be happy. If not, then there is no point to continue and the program should die.
At the ...
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Exception-handling optimisation
I have posed another question here and I am writing this one for some code review:
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How to add exceptions in a class that reads a config file?
I am using Boost for reading a config file that is in the .json format. I am using a class to do this and I am calling exit(message) in case of bad values or ...
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Python script to find large folders
I wrote this script a few days ago to find all files which were taking up over a certain threshold of memory on the hard drive. A hard drive on one of my computers had just 6 GB left, so I needed to ...
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Exceptions or something else?
I'm in the process of creating a program that can model points, vectors, lines and segments. I have the classes built and confirmed to be working correctly. The classes are built to handle multiple ...
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Variant class with full move support
I tried to write my own variant class, that is fully move-semantics enabled. WRT to implemented visitors, they don't require any policy and like to be derived from ...
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Searching for files in a specified directory
I am currently writing a program that allows me to search for files in a user-specified directory. My current code is as follows:
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Reading data from Excel sheet with ExcelDataReader
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I want to import an Excel file, and read the rows of certain columns. For this, I use ExcelDataReader. I've implemented a low-level class called ...
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Java ClassNotFoundException Handling
Is there a better way to handle this ClassNotFoundException ?
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Compute logistic regression on tweet objects
Is my approach good to naming variables and exception handling? I would like to make this code more robust and maintainable. I need advice on exception handling, var naming and comments.
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Class for connecting to mongodb databases and return collection object
This code connects to a mongodb database and returns collection objects. I am concerned about the exception handling, variable names and comments.
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StoredErrorWriter
Functionality that overwrite standard error message with trace to user friendly message with error number stored in DB.
Not yet completed some stuff with trx...
Please review this.
DB table:
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Exception Handling with `instanceOf` rather than `catch` [closed]
Would there be any reason to use the following code?
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Dividing 2 numbers
The problem is to input, divide 2 ints and display the result.
Please, review my program. It worth noting, I've intentionally used ...
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How to reformat this code so I don't use 'Exit Try' and 'Exit For'?
I use SonarQube to help me try and become a better programmer to program along with 'best-practice' standards.
There are business rules when a user is submitting data they enter in a datagridview ...
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Proper action when a Java program fails
I have a program that has to initialize a few big things (connect to a few databases, parse some XML) and without the initialization being successful the program would not be able to continue.
Right ...
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Should this be written with exception handling instead of nested if-thens?
I have a function that iterates through a list of file updates, and for each file, if updates are needed, download the file from the server, make the updates, and upload the updated version. Each ...
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Simple helper method for JUnit3 tests
In JUnit 3, I cannot tell JUnit what type of exception is expected. In JUnit 4, the ...
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Simple MPG calculator in Python
I am a self taught coder taking a Programming Fundamentals class to work towards a degree. It's based on Python, which I'm not as familiar with as other languages. I added error handling like I would ...
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Java method - levels of abstraction
In his Clean Code book, Robert C. Martin states that functions should do only one thing and one should not mix different levels of abstraction. So I started wondering whether the code below meets ...
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Throw an exception to control the flow of code execution
There is a recommendation not to use an Exception to control the flow of execution. This gives me a reason for doubt when I do something like this:
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Code to construct a complete graph
I have tried to design a class for a complete graph.
Needless to say, disadvantages of my current solution are very visible:
dependent inputs have led to verification headaches.
In this code we ...
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Passing around Connection
I have a myCon=getUnusedConnection() method that gets a connection from Connection pool. I also have a ...
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Is there any way to make this function, which takes char*, exception-proof?
I should preface this question by saying that I'm a Java programmer working on my first C++ application, so perhaps there are certain obvious things I don't know.
Some background on the problem: Our ...
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What's better: return null or handle the Exception?
I'm in doubts what approach to take here, please have a look on the code below:
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Review of approach to inheriting from std::exception [closed]
I would like a review and recommendations for improvement of my approach to resuing std::exception. Just a quick justification for the four constructor arguments: I want to force myself to always ...
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Exceptions handling, what would you do?
I know that there are several ways to handle exceptions and probably a good way is to keep the handling consistently and use the pattern which feels comfortable for himself, but I would like to get ...
