Questions tagged [error-handling]
The various techniques used for maintaining stable program state in circumstances that, if not taken care of ("handled"), could cause serious issues, including logical bugs and abrupt execution termination.
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error tracking in api endpoint
I have built a simple Nuxt 3 app and have some custom api endpoints.
I am currently tracking the user query and response statuses to have some insight when something goes wrong and that the app is ...
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Take in 10 numbers, validate each input, append then in a list and then prints the sum of the list values
I'm practicing loops in Python and started trying to have a better approach with user inputs, is there better ways of dealing with inputs when coding?
And I tried using deques too, it worked very well,...
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Processing charge current error messages with HashMap<>
I have certain error states that I am displaying in my Android TextView but only one message is displayed at a time and if all values are set to 0, no message is displayed. So, I check all the values ...
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Error handling for Laravel REST API client and server using bearer token authentication
I would like to query a REST API (which uses Bearer token authentication), handling several exceptions that might occur. Could you tell me if the following code (which I explain later in this post) is ...
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Google App Script Automation for User Onboarding
Background
I am a relatively new developer(> 2 years coding) working as an intern for a smaller company, as part of a now 4 person team. We had two other team members, one our system admin and the ...
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Java utility which forwards a request to an error handler mapping
I have a class ErrorForward which is basically a utility.
It's used in Servlets, inside the catch block.
It forwards request to <...
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Unit tests for PNGme steganography exercise in Rust
I want to become proficient in Rust and I've followed the PNGme exercise. I've completed it up until Chapter 4 included, where I've written a lot of tests myself for verifying that the command line ...
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Program to check if a window is opened or not during some time interval
I'm trying to write a program that will check if a window is opened or not, during a given time. I was able to do that, but now I'm trying to make my code look cleaner. I don't like how I implement ...
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Trying to assign property until the setter stops throwing the exception
Can I improve this code and make it more beautiful? For example, for expressions in ReadConsole method is ugly for me.
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JavaScript proxy for better stack traces from external libraries
I've been using the excellent pg-promise library for a few years now, but my primary irk with it is that the stack traces are sometimes unhelpful. For example, the following test will fail (currently ...
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Typescript error handler
I wrote a function in Typescript which takes required parameters, optional parameters and parameters with default value. I want to use this function for error handling of http requests. I am not sure, ...
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Retry read/write until all bytes are transferred or error occurs
Currently I have a wrapper function for the read/write system calls, the purpose of which is to eliminate partial transfer ...
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Open, read/write, then close a relative path
These functions will open a relative path, read or write to the file, then close. The purpose of these functions is to avoid duplicate code patters for accessing different files that only require one ...
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Try-catch-finally with 'using' in ADO.NET
I want to check if I'm correctly disposing of resources using Ado.NET. I'm not sure when the 'using' statement makes .Dispose() irrelevant.
Please bear in mind I'm aware I shouldn't hardcode my SQL ...
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Follow Up: Refactored C# Tool to Generate MS Word Document Mailbox List From MS Excel
Background
Some very good observations were made about my original code in the 2 answers to this question. In this version I have attempted to reduce cyclic complexity and class coupling even more as ...
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Dictionary based non-local mean implementation in C++
This is a follow-up question for Manhattan distance calculation between two images in C++ and Dictionary based non-local mean implementation in Matlab. For learning C++20 and researching purposes, I ...
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Implementation of exponential backoff algorithm
You can read about the algorithm here.
An exponential backoff algorithm retries requests exponentially, increasing the waiting time between retries up to a maximum backoff time. An example is:
Make ...
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Check nullability vs throw NullExceptions [closed]
I have been trying to understand the difference between two approaches and have always got confused so thought of asking this question here.
Consider following code,
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Find the mean magnitude of values inside unit circle
I'm fairly new to Python and am exploring how to fix functions and make code 'more effective and readable'. As a first step, I would want to try to make shorter snippets of code here - for example by ...
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Create trigger that updates Table3 from an insert into Table1 that multiplied by a value in Table 2 in MySQL
I know this is probably more complicated than it needs to be, however, I would really appreciate some help. I'm trying to create a trigger in MySQL that will update the value in the Costs table when a ...
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Use an exception to check if item in dictionary [closed]
I am using a KeyNotFoundException to check if an item exists in a Dictionary, creating it when the exception is thrown:
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Nested try-except for raising exceptions in Python
I'm wondering if the nested "try/except/else" structure (in the main function) is a good practice in Python. Right now, the structure is not that deep but I could continue on and on with ...
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Requiring query field to not be empty on search api
we have a RESTful API that includes an endpoint for search
apiserver/v5/search?q=[search text]
for any query, it passes it off to solr and returns the result like
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Robust program to write an array of certain data type to a binary file and read back from it (C++17)
Problem description
As the title indicates, I want to be able to write to and read from a binary file safely, in the sense that I want to have full control of everything that might go wrong. Since I ...
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Class to wrap result or exception, similar to the OneOf approach
I recently came across the OneOf<T0,...,Tn> package from mcintyre321 via a video by Nick Chapsas, which presents the idea of holding exception types to be ...
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Calculate distances between two multi-dimensional arrays in Matlab
In question "Dictionary based non-local mean implementation in Matlab", the Manhattan distance between two three-dimensional structures can be calculated by ...
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Gear Shift Indicator using Hall Effect Sensors & 8x8 LED Display
I wired up a Gear Shift Indicator for my dad's car to display what gear it is currently in, and showing changes with animations (sliding up and down as appropriate, with a few bonus ones for fun at ...
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Batch installing packages script in Octave
I am attempting to write a light script to deal with multiple package installation in Octave. The available packages can be checked in Octave Forge or wikipedia. For example, if the packages ...
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Spring boot: better way to handle response and exceptions
I am working on a quite a big Spring Boot web service and I wanted a standardized and simplified way to handle responses and exceptions by following fluent API design.
So this is what I did and it ...
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Dictionary based non-local mean implementation in Matlab
Given a dictionary including multiple X-Y pairs where X, Y are both three dimensional structure. dictionaryBasedNonlocalMean function return a ...
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2D Maze Game with Monsters
Introduction
I've started to learn C programming a bit and wanted to create a simple 2D console game. Let me first introduce you to the game level/map structure:
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Setting Wallpaper with Xlib and ImageMagick cli
This program reads raw pixels from the pipe/stdin in a loop and set the root window background.
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Archiving MongoDB data to S3, with retryable steps
I have a python script to archive some data (export from mongo to a local json file and then upload it to s3)
Is there a better way to implement/improve the current flow? Each step should be be ...
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Android APP FTP downloading file implementation in Java
This is a follow-up question for Android APP connect to FTP server in Java and Android APP FTP uploading file implementation in Java. I am attempting to perform the download operation to specified FTP ...
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Open, writing to, and closing a configuration file, and error checking the process in C
All this does is safely and reliably opens, writes to, and closes the file. Yet there are so many gotos and the code is quite verbose. I am not even sure that all ...
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Exception handling: using @JsonProperty value to make error message
If the validation in RestController fails, I need to handle MethodArgumentNotValidException and provide an errorMessage, that ...
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SubImage function implementation in C
This is a follow-up question for Two dimensional gaussian image generator in C, Two dimensional bicubic interpolation implementation in C and A SubPlane Method for Generic Two Dimensional Data Plane ...
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Android APP FTP uploading file implementation in Java
This is a follow-up question for Android APP FTP host profile class implementation and Android APP connect to FTP server in Java. I am attempting to perform the upload operation to specified FTP ...
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Android APP user registration page implementation
This is a follow-up question for Android APP User class implementation. I am attempting to build a user registering system and this post shows the user registration page implementation.
The ...
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Android APP Password Strength Assessment class implementation
This is a follow-up question for Android APP User class implementation. I am attempting to create a password strength assessment class which is named ...
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Custom Error Handler Library in C++
Is this code clean and optimized? When taking memory snapshots, it seems a bit high.
Anything I have done wrong or can do to optimize it?
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Access object initialized within try block afterwards if no exception occured
I have a use case where I try to initialize a Player object within a try block.
The relevant excerpt of the current, working ...
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Should i throw exceptions in the service layer or repository, and catch it on the controller? [closed]
I read some answers here on stack exchange, but none really "hits the nail on the head" about where to throw exceptions, where I shouldn't and where to catch them.
the idea that an exception ...
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C ArrayList implementation
I have written a ArrayList class in C and I just wanted some criticism on what I can improve on. Any criticism helps, and I was wondering if there is any better way of doing error handling other than ...
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Rethrowing unhandled exceptions later in the catching method [closed]
I have a worker class that catches uncaught exceptions and logs them for tracking purposes. However, I do NOT want to swallow those exceptions, nor do I want to abstract them (i.e. losing the stack ...
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ArrayDowncasters Implementation for Downcasting from System.Array to Array of Specific Type in C#
I am working with System.Array and I am trying to convert System.Array objects to array of specific type (such as ...
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Parsing a u8 separated vector of FromStr from a BufRead
I need to read a vector of e.g. integers from a stream, usually from stdin but sometimes also from a file. The input is always less than a megabyte, and is sometimes separated by commas and sometimes ...
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Read and sort 100 numbers from a text file
The program itself reads 100 values from a text file named input.txt. Then sorts those values in ascending order and writes the values to a new file called ...
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