An exception is an occurrence in an application process that requires deviation from the program's normal flow.
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Replacing Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations
Martin Fowler recommends replacing exceptions with notifications when dealing with validations. Essentially, instead of throwing an exception, you append error messages to a Notification object that ...
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How should I handle logger failures?
In several of our company's applications, we use a custom logger. It's fairly robust, though we may replace it with something like NLog in the future. One of the logger's tasks is to log any ...
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Do uncatchable exceptions exist in Javascript? [migrated]
Do any javascript runtimes (browsers, Node, etc.) ever throw uncatchable exceptions? Are any and all exceptions ever encountered in a javascript environment catchable in a try/catch statement?
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Why shouldn't a method throw multiple types of checked exceptions?
We use SonarQube to analyse our Java code and it has this rule (set to critical):
Public methods should throw at most one checked exception
Using checked exceptions forces method callers to ...
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Under which circumstances does it make sense to lose track of where an exception was thrown from?
Is there any valid reason why a catch block on a lower layer would throw back an exception caused by a higher, unknown layer using the following syntax:
throw ex;
... rather than:
throw;
... ?
...
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Advice needed on rethrowing an exception
Consider the following c# code:
public class ExceptionManager
{
public static void TreatException(Exception ex)
{
if (ShowAndContinue(ex))
// display a user-friendly ...
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Should I accept empty collections in my methods that iterate over them?
I have a method where all logic is performed inside a foreach loop that iterates over the method's parameter:
public IEnumerable<TransformedNode> TransformNodes(IEnumerable<Node> nodes)
{
...
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1answer
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Exceptions in ANSI C
Would it be possible to implement exception mechanism in pure ANSI C similar to the one used in popular OOP languages (with familiar try-catch-finally clauses)?
If yes then how?
I'm especially ...
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How to stop connecting to a server after n unsuccessful attempts? [migrated]
Here is the problem.
I am trying to connect to a server.
If the connection goes through, then print an apt message.
If the connection does not go through, try for a total of n times. And quit after ...
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Is it safe to catch ImportError when trying to import optional modules?
I usually see this pattern at least once in every Python project I work on. For example, in a Django project, this is often added at the bottom of the base settings file:
try:
from .local_settings ...
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1answer
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Should I throw std::bad_alloc?
I am allocating memory on the stack, and distributing it manually to shared pointers. I end up doing something like this at startup (I've simplified it by ignoring alignment issues):
char pool[100];
...
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How to clean up nested try/except/else?
When writing code, I often want to do something like this:
try:
foo()
except FooError:
handle_foo()
else:
try:
bar()
except BarError:
handle_bar()
else:
...
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1answer
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Exceptions: What to handle, what to throw
I have a custom configuration reader which performs various functions on top of .NET's CloudConfigurationManager and ConfigurationManager implementations, such as caching, type conversion, etc.
The ...
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1answer
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Exception class for each exception or for all framework
I am developing a framework and it can generate various types of exceptions. Initially I'm working with a single exception class that indicates that something went wrong inside the framework. However, ...
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Java - Is it possible/good idea to reduce chance of crashing by catching Error?
I have a class the implements A which will run a certain method of class B. There is a requirement that this A should never crash when running this operation (which is not possible, right?).
To ...
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Why design a modern language without an exception-handling mechanism?
Many modern languages provide rich exception handling features, but Apple's Swift programming language does not provide an exception handling mechanism.
Steeped in exceptions as I am, I'm having ...
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How does the JVM handle an exception thrown by the main method?
I understand exceptions, throwing them, handling them, and propagating them to a method lower in the call stack (i.e. throws).
What I don't understand is this:
public static void main(String[] args) ...
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Logging instance information in Exceptions
During development on a large existing codebase I've started to capture variable values in my Exception logging. For example:
public int Foo(int a, int b)
{
int returnInt;
try{
returnInt ...
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Is it okay to use exceptions as tools to “catch” errors early?
I use exceptions to catch problems early. For example:
public int getAverageAge(Person p1, Person p2){
if(p1 == null || p2 == null)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("One or more of ...
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4answers
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Is a long list of parameter checks an anti-pattern?
Background: I'm working on an application that will manage backup generators. These generators need to be able to be "linked" together. For example, Generator B might serve as a backup for ...
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vote
3answers
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Null checking whilst navigating object hierarchies
I had to implement some code which traversed a small object hierarchy to fetch a value and display it in a TextView object (this is Android / Java). I had to do this 6 times to populate 6 TextViews ...
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1answer
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RefactorException: Good idea or bad idea?
When I'm doing large scale refactors I'm often commenting out the contents of methods and using NotImplementedExceptions for stuff that I still need to refactor. Problem is that this is interfering ...
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2answers
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Should I throw guard exceptions that will be thrown by internal methods anyway?
I have some fairly simple code (C#):
/// <summary>
/// Truncates a string to a maximum length.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value"> The string to truncate. ...
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vote
1answer
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Why is Throwable initCause designed to be called only once?
I find it really odd that the initCause method of Java's Throwable class can only be called once, or even not at all (if the constructor accepting a Throwable was used). This makes exception chaining ...
2
votes
1answer
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Is it good practice to use NoStackTrace in scala?
I came across the NoStackTrace mixin for Exceptions in scala.
Is it good practice to use it, or should it be considered "internal" to scala and left alone?
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Should we only catch in exceptional circumstances?
Whether error handling by throwing exceptions is good or bad is contentious.
Are exceptions as control flow considered a serious antipattern? If so, Why?
The common line is that exceptions are for ...
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4answers
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alerting that an object cannot be deleted (due to constraints)
Assume an application with a rich domain model with many classes (e.g School, Classroom, Teacher, Student, Course, Exam, Submission, ...) linking to each other. Model and links are mapped to the ...
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1answer
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When to declare @throws with a Scala annotation - abstract parent or concrete implementation?
In this StackOverflow question I asked about the behavior of the @throws annotation in Scala. Now that I understand how it works I want to ask about best practices with using it. Here's a repost of my ...
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1answer
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Java-Like 'throws'-information in method signature C#
From Java I know that the signatures of methods that can throw exceptions contain a throws block, that contains the Exception(s) that might be thrown.
In C# there is no such thing and it is also not ...
3
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4answers
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How much data should exceptions hold?
Almost all the exceptions I have ever written have been very lightweight, containing a String message and optionally a throwable. In some situations I have included some application specific enum or ...
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2answers
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How do you handle specific networking exceptions in Haskell?
I have the following to try and connect to a server:
testAddress :: HostName -> Int -> IO (Maybe Handle)
testAddress host iPort = do
let port = PortNumber $ fromIntegral iPort
putStrLn ...
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votes
1answer
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Why are F# exceptions generally not suffixed with 'Exception'?
In .NET, it is idiomatic to suffix exception types with Exception. But most, if not all, sources I have seen for custom exception types in F# don't follow this idiom.
Most seem to use the suffix ...
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1answer
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Pros and cons of custom exceptions [duplicate]
This may be an pointless question based on opinion, style, and context but I've been racking my brain trying to decide whether or not to make use of custom exceptions and would love to hear some pros ...
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IllegalStateException vs. IllegalArgumentException
In have written a function which expects the caller to pass in a configuration file like XML. Then I parse this given file and extract something which i then return.
In this function (at least) two ...
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Are error variables an anti-pattern or good design?
In order to handle several possible errors that shouldn't halt execution, I have an error variable that clients can check and use to throw exceptions. Is this an Anti-Pattern? Is there a better way to ...
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2answers
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Expected error handling
Let's say I have a social media website. On this website, users can upload several pieces of information about themselves, including their phone number. To implement this, I have a class called ...
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0answers
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How to void checked exceptions in Java? [duplicate]
I consider checked exception for a design mistake in the Java language. They lead to leaky abstractions and a lot of clutter in the code. It seems that they force the programmer to handle exceptions ...
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What should happen when code is reached that shouldn't be, according to business or logic rules? [duplicate]
I am currently writing an application that isn't huge but will be used through-out my company of 200+ people and external customers about projects we are working on (not software projects), but there ...
3
votes
2answers
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Retried Operation with generic Exception
I am looking for a way to get the logic of retrying an operation in a single method while keeping the exception types of the operation.
I.e., the implementation to retry an operation could look like ...
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votes
6answers
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Should you throw an exception if a method's input values are out of range? [duplicate]
Should you throw an exception if a method's input values are out of range? eg
//no imaginary numbers
public int MySquareRoot(int x)
{
if (x<0)
{
throw new ...
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votes
1answer
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How to determine what throws an exception [closed]
Whenever I encounter crashes, the exact type of the exception usually already gives enough info to easily find the culprit. FileNotFoundException will hardly occur while using sockets.
Now recently ...
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1answer
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Is ok to throw exception in normal code path which eliminate a possible programmer error? [duplicate]
I know that exception should be thrown in exceptional case (e.g. out of memory, programmer error). For these cases, I don't need to worry about performance throwing these exception.
But what happen ...
2
votes
1answer
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Should we encapsulate everything in a try{} block in a Try object?
Why can't I make a class for a Try including what I try and then run that in the try {} block? Why is it impractical?
class DBConnectTry extends Try {
TryResponse response[] attempt(TryObject ...
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votes
3answers
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Should I use an Exception in a case like this? [duplicate]
I have a Windows service with a fluent interface like this:
aRequest = Repository.getRequest()
.createProcess()
.validate();
Sometimes getRequest() could ...
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vote
3answers
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Exception when logging exception: is it correct to ignore them?
My question is specific to php, but i think it can be useful in other languages.
I log into a table all the exception a code can throw:
try{
//Some code
} catch (Exception $e) {
$log = new ...
3
votes
5answers
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How should I handle exception that *should* never be thrown? [duplicate]
What is the best way to handle errors that shouldn't ever happen?
My current way to do this is to throw an exception if the 'thing that shouldn't happen' does happen, like so:
/*
* Restoring from a ...
3
votes
1answer
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Should I assert in packages? [duplicate]
I have read a few asserts vs exception questions already; I ask specifically about package visible classes though.
When you write a package, the classes marked with "public" are exposed to the ...
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1answer
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Functions returning either “OK” or “error message” instead of procedures
I have joined writing middle-size multi-purpose database application as co-lead. It currently has about 150 tables (and growing) and overall functionality you can imagine as very small ERP.
At many ...
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1answer
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Is it fine to make a default constructor unusable?
Specifically asking about the default constructor
Given that the constructor initializes all the data for an object, if I create a class that can't be used without proper initialization, is it not ...
3
votes
4answers
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Should exceptions do things other than tell the user something went wrong?
I created a general class that accepts a string when it is constructed, and it spits out that string when a user calls what(). This is all it does; on throw, it returns the initializing string.
...
