Re: [Cdk-devel] RFC: Subclassing CDKException?

[Egon W. <eg...@us...>]

On Thursday 25 November 2004 11:51, Kai Hartmann wrote:
> > some long time ago 'we', i.e. the project, decided that we should only
> > use CDKException, and not subclasses of this exception...
>
> Is there a log of the discussion that has leaded to this decision? I
> don't want to go all over it again. Maybe someone can provide links?

No, don't think so...

> The obvious advantage of the current approach is quicker development (no
> extra exception classes, no long lists of thrown exceptions for each
> method).

A method does not need to throw more than one CDKException... i.e. if they are 
properly subclassing that class...

> > However, I've experienced this as a burden, more than that it reduced
> > complexity in the system. It would be easier to trace a problem if we
> > would use subclassed CDKExceptions, because the Exception class name is
> > prominent in the stacktrace, and handling exception in source code is
> > much more specific...
>
> That's a PRO

Christoph, what do you think?

Egon

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