[Cdk-devel] New exception

[John M. <jo...@eb...>]

Hi all,

Just added a new exception for the CDK, 'Intractable'. It is to indicate when a problem could not be completed in reasonable time / or iterations. Egon noted the usual behaviour of the existing API is to throw CDKException and I should bring it up with the mailing list.

The new exception extends CDKException so if you really like pokémon exceptions (got to catch them all) you can still do that. Generally my approach is to use runtime exceptions for programmer errors and if you really need a checked exception then try and reuse the JDK ones (e.g. SmilesParser/MDLV2000Reader would be nicer if they threw an IOException). I couldn't find an exception for when a problem simply isn't feasible, TimeoutException is for network sockets, so I created this.  

Thoughts/opinions?

Cheers,
J