Re: [Gnue-dev] Policy for error messages

[Derek Neighbors]

Did any one answer this?


I like option (a)

-Derek
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 03:19:20 +0200
Jan Ischebeck <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> After GNUe reports client made so much progress over last weeks, I
> decided to try it out. But I allways got the same error message:
> 
> The gnue.conf file appears to be missing
> The file should be located in one of the following locations
> bla bla ...
> 
> I moved gnue.conf a little bit around, but although forms and designer
> found the file, reports still had problems. Looking at the code I
> realized that the real reason was an >NoSectionError:section reports
> not found<. After spending some much time moving gnue.conf around, I 
> thought of making life easier for other people, who forget to update 
> their gnue.conf, and to replace that misleading error message by an
> appropriate one.
> 
> But the problem goes farer than just replacing one message. In case of
> GConfig every kind of error was catched and the same error message
> (file not found ) was printed allways.  i.e. the first step is to
> catch just IOErrors in GConfig. the second step is to catch the 
> >NoSectionError< and write a error message, but what should happen to
> >all other exceptions which can occure? These kind of exceptions will
> >allways be there, because its difficult to care for all possible
> >errors while writing the code.  I thought of two ways to handle them:
> 
> a) catch the Exception and write ... Error type ,,, msg 
> b) don't catch the Exception
> 
> What do you think? What is the better solution, or do you know a BEST
> solution?
> 
> Jan
> 
> Jan Ischebeck
> University of Bonn
> Sinologie
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