Re: [Oorexx-devel] Improvement?

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

To add to what Mark said, the Failure in system service message is probably
the best fit for this.  The main message (48.001) has a service name
substitution pattern, or you can use 48.900, where you can provide your own
message.

Rick


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:48 PM, David Ashley <w.d...@gm...>wrote:
>
>
>> I tried using an exception where I should have been able to supply my
>> own error message (93000) but the message never appeared on the console
>> and I got a generic message instead. So i do not know if I was not
>> coding the exception call correctly or if there was something else
>> amiss.
>>
>
> I'm thinking you might be coding it wrong.  In ooDialog I raise many, many
> exceptions where the existing exception messages don't fit.  Take the out
> of memory exception, in APICommon.cpp I have
>
> void outOfMemoryException(RexxThreadContext *c)
> {
>     systemServiceException(c, NO_MEMORY_MSG);
> }
>
> where NO_MEMORY_MSG is a #define with the message string and
> systemServiceException() is:
>
> void severeErrorException(RexxThreadContext *c, const char *msg)
> {
>     c->RaiseException1(Rexx_Error_Interpretation_user_defined,
> c->String(msg));
> }
>
> In my comments for that function:
>
> /**
>  * 49.900
>  * 49 -> A severe error was detected in the language processor or execution
>  *       process during internal self-consistency checks.
>  *
>  * 900 -> User message
>  *
>  */
>
> In ooDialog/trunk/ooDialog is APICommon.cpp, and oodCommon.cpp which
> contain exception functions.  Maybe you could look at those for examples
>
>
>> In any case I am still trying to figure out what the best way to handle
>> these types of errors are. Do we need more messages in the library or do
>> we handle this as a generic case with a single type of exception?
>>
>>
> I don't think we need anything new, the native API already has enough to
> handle the types of errors you brought up, I think.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
>
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