Questions tagged [exceptions]
An exception is an occurrence in an application process that requires deviation from the program's normal flow.
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Should exceptions be only thrown if I intend to crash the program?
...I wanted to find the source before writing this Q, sadly I couldn't.
My mental model was that exceptions were thought as an alternative to returning error codes from a function, which is the C ...
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Handling an exception thrown in a catch block [closed]
If I'm writing a method, in C# for example, I will use a try catch block.
Let's say the method adds some numbers but I log exceptions in the catch block. What's the best way to handle an exception ...
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Exception propagation: When should I catch exceptions?
MethodA calls an MethodB which in turn calls MethodC.
There is NO exception handling in MethodB or MethodC. But there is exception handling in MethodA.
In MethodC an exception occurs.
Now, that ...
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Should you “rebrand” the exception of the library you're using?
Say your making a library Foo that depends on a 3rd-party library Bar.
Bar throws a custom exception \OtherVendor\Bar\CustomException.
Is it recommended to just throw that exact exception to your ...
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Best practices for handling application specific exceptions?
Is it considered to be a good practice to convert all types of exceptions (exceptions from internal logic of application + exceptions from application's external dependencies - for example: File ...
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How to handle error responses in a chain of CompletableFutures?
I have a long chain of completable futures in my project, with each step calling a backend API, which can give multiple error responses and one success response. Now, after parsing the response, I ...
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Having a flag to indicate if we should throw errors
I recently started working at a place with some much older developers (around 50+ years old). They have worked on critical applications dealing with aviation where the system could not go down. As a ...
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Should I track my handled exceptions?
Various analytics tools will track the number of handled and unhandled exceptions (crashes) that happen in an app. This obviously helps us find problems we didn't know existed and will fix it.
Quite ...
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Is using exceptions to validate parameters a violation of using exceptions for control flow?
I was reading on SO and SESE about exceptions and control flow, but I can't seem to determine or figure out if using exceptions to validate parameters is a violation of that guideline.
Suppose I had ...
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How to deal with an unknown situation in a system?
When a caller makes a call to a callee, exception's are used to inform the caller that something different has happened so that he could change the flow of the program if required. In that sense, ...
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Why is it bad to use exceptions for handling this type of validation? It seems like it makes the code so much cleaner
I'm working on a .NET Core REST API and I'm writing a service class to create new user accounts. I have the following code:
public async Task<UserDto> RegisterNewUserAccount(...
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Is avoiding throwing an exceptions OK?
e.g I'm parsing whole Excel file with many rows, that has an column which contains Date.
I'm not sure how to handle error-handling when it comes to parsing string to DateTime
Here's an sample code ...
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Check if resource exists before inserting to the database or wait until the DAO throw the Exception?
I have two paths:
/students
/students/{id}/addresses
...with the following behavior:
POST to /students - 201 Created (if successfully created the Student)
POST to /students/{id}/addresses - 201 ...
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Is it a good practice to use self-defined exception?
Our team has different opinions about the practice of using self-defined exception for handling the business logic.
Someone says it is good as the exception comes meaningful and readable, and the ...
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Reuse JSE checked exceptions as unchecked
Actually what i'm doing in my code base is duplicating already existing java checked exceptions like MalformedURLException.class by keeping the same exception name while inheriting from ...
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Is it beneficial to throw a caught IOException as an UncheckedIOException in order to prevent NullPointerException?
Not using UncheckedIOException, NullPointerException possible
public void callerMethod() {
Object result = ioMethod();
// call instance method of result
}
public Object ioMethod() {
...
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Is passing an ErrorMessage to be populated inside the receiving method an anti-pattern?
I come from a Java background, and my colleague is from .NET. We are working on a Java project and I saw him create a method like this:
public Object myMethod(Object[] param1, ErrorMessage ...
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Verifying Parameters in Constructor or Service
I was reading on this SO page about when to check parameters when constructing an object. The accepted answer suggests throwing the exception from the constructor so that an invalid object cannot be ...
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Limits of Defensive Programming acknowledging that Exception Handling should be avoided
I've read Defensive Programming vs Exception Handling? and if/else statements or exceptions, but none contain something relevant to what I'm searching for.
Taking into account that exception handling ...
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Too much logic in a nested catch block
My lead dev complained that I have too much logic in a nested catch block. My code goes something like this:
try
{
// some setup and a network call
}
catch (CustomEx ex)
{
try
{
...
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Simple but frequently throwing vs reasonable but rarely throwing vs complex but never throwing [duplicate]
A lot of code that's designed to convert or parse some data of type Foo into a Bar is written with the assumption that one wouldn't intentionally pass it invalid inputs. As such, it assumes that ...
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Passing a callback all the way down or throw an Exception?
I have a service, call it Service A, that is built on a Storage Layer, call it DB, that is 5-6 levels deep. This layer is depended upon by many other services.
Service A is having memory issues and ...
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Should reused exceptions types be favored over single use ones?
Let's say I have Doors that are managed by a DoorService. The DoorService is in charge of opening, closing and locking the doors that are stored on the database.
public interface DoorService
{
...
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How to deal with exceptions in DLLs?
I recently started working on an existing project written in C++ Builder.
The application consists of a MainModule that loads lots of modules (DLLs). The MainModule itself is a DLL (there is a small ...
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Should I localize exception messages?
It is probably related to "Who should read Exception.Message if at all" and similar questions asked on this site, but I don't see how it is possible to always generate a custom message while avoiding ...
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Catching exceptions in service layer without hiding bugs
Let's imagine we have a service CustomerService:
public class CustomerService
{
public Customer GetCustomer(string customerName)
{
if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(customerName))
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Is it wrong to prefer exceptions to centralize error handling logic?
Using C++, often I hear that you should avoid throwing exceptions for flow control and you should avoid calling functions in conditions where you know they will throw. For example, if a function ...
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Exceptions, error codes and discriminated unions
I've recently started a C# programming job, but I've got quite a bit of background in Haskell.
But I understand C# is an object-orientated language, I don't want to force a round peg into a square ...
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Best practice for handling many exceptions
I have Java microservice that exposes multiple APIs. Under each API there are many exceptions could be thrown. The last method that catches them all has big catch block ...
catch(exc1 e1 | exc2 e2 | ...
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Should service throw exception or return when no items specified for deletion
I have a piece of code that can be represented as:
public class ItemService {
public void DeleteItems(IEnumerable<Item> items)
{
// Save us from possible NullReferenceException ...
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What exception to throw when the XML is not correctly structured?
What kind of exception should I throw if the XML can be parsed, but is not structured in the way expected by the program - wrong tag names etc.
Example - Expected
<xml>
<tag1>blabla</...
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Granularity of Exceptions
I've run into a debate between a few friends and I. They prefer general exceptions such as ClientErrorException and ServerErrorException with detail as fields of the exception, whereas I prefer making ...
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Should a Connect() Method return false on failure or throw exception?
I found this question
Return magic value, throw exception or return false on failure?, however it is kind of broad. I would like a more specific answer.
Say I have a method called Connect() which ...
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Throwing custom exceptions in library: do I throw concrete ones or their superclass?
I am designing a library that abstracts a typical CRUD http service named FooService.
In this library I am throwing different exceptions like FooServiceClientException for network related errors or ...
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Web API : Centralize business transaction logic : Good Idea?
We develop on a ASP.NET Web API where we use the "Unit Of Work / Repository" pattern :
Our Controllers looks like that :
public class MyController : Controller
{
private IUnitOfWork _unitOfWork;
...
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How should I handling throwing exceptions in C#? [duplicate]
I'm developing a game engine in C# and I just had a question about handling exceptions correctly.
Since the engine will be used by other .NET developers, how should I handle exceptions?
What I mean ...
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Ruby: Exceptions for flow control inside an .each block
Consider the following minimal example:
class SomeException < StandardError
end
class Example
@@logger = Logger.new
@@failure_count = 0
def do_a_thing(array)
raise SomeException unless ...
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Best practice for exception handling in Java threads
long-time reader, first-time asker here. I have a service which writes data to a database in batches. It contains a buffer which is being watched by a separate thread. Whenever the buffer reaches a ...
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Best way to manage services and exceptions
I have a mobile app who consumes a api service. I have a class to manage all the operations (get, post, put) who throws exceptions if the result is not 200.
The app was originaly designed to be ...
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Is raising an unrelated exception for convenience acceptable? [duplicate]
Let's say I have a function that returns a dataset. First it tries to read it and if that fails it is requested from an API and then written:
def get_dataset():
try:
df = pd.read_csv('...
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How to handle a hierarchy of exceptions - by wrapping or by inheritance?
I'm writing a reusable library, and I'm looking for a way to handle the exceptions that might occur during the processing. For example, I have the following class:
public interface IObjectFetcher
{
...
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Mapping exceptions to error response
Imagine a program which exposes a REST service/gRPC service/whatever service, which uses several 3rd party libraries. These libraries can of course throw exceptions if something goes wrong, for ...
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Try/Catch/Log/Rethrow - Is Anti Pattern?
I can see several post where importance of handling exception at central location or at process boundary been emphasized as a good practice rather than littering every code block around try/catch. I ...
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Should a file reader library API throw exceptions?
I am developing a (Java) library providing an API to read a file in a specific format into an object. The format is basically a map, and specifies valid values for some of the keys, and valid types ...
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Is using Option#get really a bad idea here?
I'm working on a Scala project and Wartremover shows an error about Option#get usage in my code:
Option#get is disabled - use Option#fold instead
While I do understand how get should often be ...
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What are common/best practices for frameworks handling standard third-party exceptions?
Amongst other things in my life, I'm writing a framework in PHP to manage a slew of common problems I come up against in every project I tackle. The framework is currently very data-centric, with the ...
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How to design exceptions
I'm struggling with a very simple question:
I'm now working on a server application, and I need to invent a hierarchy for the exceptions (some exceptions already exist, but a general framework is ...
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Reasoning behind custom class Exception
I am learning Python and when I learned that we can build Custom classes for exception, I got into a confusion of Why ?
for example1 :
class MyException(Exception):
def __init__(self, error):
...
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Difference between Exception “Ducking” and “Swallowing”
I came across a tutorial which says this code is Exception Ducking
public class SomeClass {
void doTask() {
try {
//..Some Exception prone code
}
catch(Exception e) { }
}}
...
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Ignore exception when closing a resource such as a file?
From Effective Java 2e by Joshua Bloch,
An example of the sort of situation where it might be appropriate to ignore an
exception is when closing a FileInputStream. You haven’t changed the state ...
