The various techniques used for maintaining stable program state in circumstances that, if not taken care of ("handled"), could cause serious issues, including logical bugs and abrupt execution termination.
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Opening and validating an XML file
I have a section of code that repeats many lines and I am looking to refactor this code possibly so that a function can be used instead of the same lines of code each time. Below is the section of ...
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Prompting for two integers and dividing, using exceptions to handle divide-by-zero errors
I'm trying to learn exception handling in C++.
I wanted to read two integers and divide them and print them.
The code should throw an exception when the second integer is zero, ask the user to re-...
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Reinitialize cache periodically, catching and logging any Throwables
My existing code has a scheduler that we init when a DataStore constructor is called.
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Send records and retry them if acknowledgement is not received
I am working on a project where I need to consume lot of records and then I am sending these records to some other system which uses zeromq.
Here is the flow:
Store all the incoming records in a CHM ...
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Filtering out the correct car from a list of cars and retrieving only one car
I am filtering out a List<Car> based on the brand. Since each car is made by one brand, I want to make sure my method ...
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Monitoring errors with singleton
I need to monitor my functions for "errors" and want to print the warnings at the end of the functions. I thought using singleton class could be a good idea in here (code inspired by this example):
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URL decode a string but log an error after second exception
I have a method which does URL decoding on the string value passed along with using Charset:
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Simple C++ alternative to exceptions for embedded systems
I have researched ways to implement a simpler alternative for C++ exceptions. The problem I had with exceptions was the complex and not-portable stack unwinding process which make him hard to ...
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Circular doubly linked list with templates
I tried to write some code namely "Circular doubly linked list" and I would like to use templates to do this.
This is the first time I use templates and throws some exceptions.
I would like to know ...
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Find all words that can create a pyramid
I wanted to write something that would find all pyramid words within a supplied text file or list of strings. An example of a pyramid word is the word "deadheaded". It has one of the letter "h", two ...
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Are these try/catch blocks cluttering the code?
The following program reads a stream and creates a two dimensional std::vector.
I'm trying to find an elegant way to handle the errors and recover from them as ...
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PHP Error Class
I have coded a very simple error class that will allow me to display errors if they should happen. For example, if a file is missing or a database connection couldn't be established I would display a ...
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Verifying user accounts on SMTP servers
I've been writing a basic script to enumerate SMTP users (via a user dictionary) on poorly configured SMTP servers. In scripts like this, I usually see arguments handled as follows:
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Select a list from a 2D list, take the last item from its nearest non empty left neighbour and put it at its head
I've just got into Haskell a few days ago and I love it. I'm looking for some pointers and best practices on how to organise and write Haskell code specifically when it comes to managing errors, which ...
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Dual-language beginner math solver program in C++
I've written a program that solves questions of:
Addition
Finding the hypotenuse of a triangle
Checking if the triangle has a right-angle or not
I've also written it to be viewed in English or ...
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Repeat an action for a set of elements until all succeed, or progression halts
Context
I'm trying to write a function that drops a list of tables from a database (e.g., tables A, B and C).
This function has the following type, it returns a list of booleans indicating whether ...
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Try again, and again, and again… but not too often because the potatoes won't grow
The delay sequence has been fixed so I can move to the next step which are the Retry and Breaker.
(Just ignore the console ...
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An attempt to make a linked list iterator “safe”
I was practicing my C++ routine and decided to code up this simple linked list data structure. Furthermore, I made an attempt to make the list iterator "safe" in the sense that it throws an exception ...
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Interpreting database values as times and integers
I am working through Chapter 10 of Haskell Programming from First Principles.
I've gotten the code to work, but I am uneasy about the fact that a few of my functions - namely, ...
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AngularJS recursive function call with $timeout
I have created a recursive function call in AngularJS and just wonder if is there a better way to solve this problem? The code works perfectly.
My code is the following:
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Concurrent/parallel ForEachAsync - proper handling of exceptions and cancellations
I've created an asynchronous parallel ForEach mechanism so I could enumerate an enumerable by N degrees of concurrency and process an action for each item. ...
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Prettifying PHP's Exception stacktraces
I have always disliked the way PHP printed stacktraces, coming from a Java world. So I decided to implement my own ExceptionFormatter, a class that will format ...
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X86 Legacy boot loader error trapping
The boot loader that I'm designing is just simply going to setup (A) Stack, (B) Segment registers (C) Load remainder of track for specified device. Conventionally, this could have been up to 4 floppy ...
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Django REST custom methods for generic views
I'm intern and work on a project where I develop DRF API that need to interact with mobile app written by my colleague with Ionic framework.
We are creating new user. My view method is following:
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Waiting for all task to complete while catching exceptions early
I'm working on simulating a number of processing elements (nodes) which do some work in parallel and communicate by exchanging messages. The message exchange is not in the scope of this post, but it ...
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An object for passing a chain of errors in JavaScript
I want to pass errors in errors in order to know exactly the chain of causes, but without augmenting or even reading any stack until this becomes really necessary. And this is how I would achieve this:...
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Insert data into Aurora DB from Kinesis Stream using Amazon Web Services Lambda Function
I have a python AWS lambda function that takes JSON records, checks them to see if they have required keys, and then inserts into MySQL db. The function gets invoked whenever a new record comes into ...
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Handling errors in a Python UDP proxy [closed]
The following (stripped) program receives UDP packets on port 5000 and forwards them to port 5001. It may throw socket errors on startup (e.g.: if the port is already in use), but I am not too worried ...
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Validating attributes of a page in Adobe Experience Manager
I am reviewing the following code written by a fellow developer. I am not an java expert but IMHO i did not feel this is efficient use of exceptions — the reason I feel so is:
The below code throwing ...
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Job queue with threading
On many articles and blogs, I have read that exceptions should not decide flow of your code.
I have wrote the following code using one thread:
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Doing an ROP style bind for two functions on the same input in a pipeline
I am working on understanding Railway Oriented Programming (Scott Wlaschin style) in F#. In my example I want to create a pipeline which does some calculation, applies two different functions to the ...
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Lower level exception handling during enumeration
I've got pretty straight forward scenario. I've got a class called FileInformationExtractor and method GetFilesInformation that ...
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Handling user input - follow-up
Original code: Getting name from user, and handling any errors in C
I fixed the bugs. Is there anything else to consider?
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Getting name from user, and handling any errors in C
The primary purpose of this program is to practice catching if the user enters data that does not correspond to expected input. Note if the user enters their name as "123", this is valid as it can be ...
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General Retry Strategy #3 with TryResult
I wanted to use the Try helper from @DmitryNogin's General Retry Strategy #2 but each attempt to implement it revealed another thing that is missing.
In my review ...
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Reading lines of a file into a vector of strings
I have to read from a file and store the data inside an std::vector container. The procedure of opening the file, reading and writing onto the container are enclosed in a routine: readData.
Reading ...
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Make sure the user enters a valid floating-point number in C
I would like to know if this is a good way to make sure the user enters a valid number.
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General Retry Strategy #2
Previous version
Now supports async operations and cancellation.
Let’s say we copy some file using retry strategy (it might be blocked, etc.). App code comes bellow:
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Rust-like “Result” in C - nicer error handling
There are frequently things I miss when using C; one of them is a nice error-handling (exception-like) system. After trying Rust, I realized I could implement something similar in C itself. So here's ...
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General Retry Strategy
Let’s say we copy some file using retry strategy (it might be blocked, etc.):
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REST API returning NotFound (404) if record is not found in the database
I'm not really sure what the preferred way is to deal with records not found in the database. Is it better to write a Find method which returns ...
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Avoiding a call to CommandBarControl.Picture
Earlier today, I encountered an Access Violation error when opening the VBE for SolidWorks 2006, while Rubberduck VBA was initializing.
I traced the Access Violation back to an attempt to set the ...
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Functional-style Cocoa XML serializer and object mapper
I'm working on an XML-to-model-object serialization and deserialization library. There are three main design goals for the code:
It should parse XML into and serialize from Cocoa-native collection ...
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Class of file uploading to S3 using boto with multipart supported
I'm writing an app by Flask with a feature to upload large file to S3 and made a class to handle this.
I have some targets in writing code:
Code must be easy to understand and maintain. (Yes, ...
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Check existence of item in collection [closed]
Checking whether an item exist in a collection isn't straightforward in VBA, it requires error checking and during error handling we need to clear the error and also resume code to be able to ...
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SQL message logger run loop
I am learning Java by reading source code of other authors. This Java method handles communication with SQL database. While the code does work several things concern me. For instance the ...
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Parsing excel cells containing line feed characters
This is a direct follow up to Parsing cells containing Line Feed Characters.
Link to sanitized xls on dropbox if test data is needed
Essentially the reports I work with aren't bad -
The issue is ...
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Validation that also returns error messages
My Create, Update and Delete methods should return a ...
