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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Python: Exception handling in a logic gate
I'm learning about Python and am going through the OO-stage where I'm building a set of logic-gate classes.
To make the logic more resilient, I only want the user to be able to enter a value of 0 or ...
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Interpreter raises an error that has already been corrected [on hold]
I'd really appreciate your help, I am a complete newbie to Python and to programming in general. This error is raised when I am trying to execute the code below from command prompt:
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Copying content from Excel into PowerPoint as a picture, with error handling
The code below works, but I want to ask if my solution is adequate or if there's something I should structure differently. If it's alright, I'll apply the same code in other subs.
My code copies ...
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Enum for handling network request errors in Swift
I'm working on a new API written in Swift 5 and I wanted to play with the new Result. I wanted to know what you guys think about this syntax:
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Pseudocode supposedly has an error in it [closed]
Recently finished an exam where I had to spot multiple errors, I can't seem to find 1 from the pseudocode:
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NZEC Error in DFS traversal of a tree [closed]
I have all the nodes of a tree in an ArrayList<Node> nodes and my edges are in given in the arrays u[] and ...
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Connect to a database with Diesel
New to Rust and would like some clarification on idiomatic and readable use of Result and Error types. Here I'm simply connecting to a database using Diesel. In my opinion, the use of match and Boxing ...
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Should my Json storage handle exceptions?
I made a class to conviniently serialize/deserialize data. Now I'm stuck with the following question. Should I handle exceptions (use try-catch) inside JsonStorage ...
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Custom Error Classes in OOP
I have a class which parses a .csv file and converts it into successful rows and errors. Currently I have 12 different kind of errors (mail is not valid, missing column x, row is duplicate etc.).
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Decode Argon2 parameters and handling decode errors
I am writing a function to decode Argon2 hashed string to extract parameters. I need to handle many decode errors, and handle those errors lead to write many repeating ...
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Temporarily block API calls when server sends a 503 response
I have a scenario in which I call many APIs throughout my application lifecycle.
In case the server sends me a 503 response code, it will also send a lockdown object which has a timestamp associated ...
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DirectX11 Error Handling
I'm new to C++, been a C programmer most of my life. I wanted to get into graphics and Direct3D is C++ so I figured it was about time. I've been learning about strings, vectors, references, smart ...
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Simulation of a banking system with an Account class in C++
I have been learning C++ and recently I have started practicing classes. I made this simulation of a banking system with an Account class. I would like to hear feedback on my code, what is good - what ...
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Requests / Facebook API - Dealing with Errors
I work in marketing and I am currently trying to aggregate data for 50 facebook pages on the same Business Page.
I have a loop ...
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Retry a Promise resolution N times, with a delay between the attempts
I want some JavaScript code to take 3 things as parameters:
A function returning a Promise.
The maximum number of attempts.
The delay between each attempt.
What I ended up doing is using a ...
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Rethrowing Error through several classes [closed]
This is a simplified version of my app. It has a bunch of scraper classes, and a Job class, which controls the collection of data, and the saving to the db. During scraping it could happen many ...
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VBA Function Error Bubbling
What will be the best practice to create an efficient error handler in object class in VBA? Creating some for Outlook (used later in both, Excel and Access) and trying to get the most efficient and ...
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Constructor for a packagetarget struct
As many of you know goto is usually signs of code smell. However I thought this could be an appropriate case, and would like confirmation or criticism.
Unnecessary ...
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Error handling function (Win32/C)
I have written the following function to be a general "error logging" solution for my Windows API projects. Basically, given a Windows system error code (a la ...
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Page download with reattempts in Scala
I wrote the following code to deal with possible network problems.
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Node.js http retry do while mechanism
I have implemented a simple do/while loop to handle a http request to a third-party. I don’t know when the data I receive will have elements in its array so I retry up to 10 times until the array ...
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Decoding assembly instructions in a Game Boy disassembler
I am coding a game boy disassembler in C++. The program (simplified here) converts a vector of byte into an assembly instruction and print it.
To do so, it iterates through the vector of bytes (char)...
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C# Handling Task Cancellations/Timeouts and Exceptions [closed]
I am very new to Tasks and therefore new to handling task cancellations and task exceptions.
I wrote this method that gets a List which is then used to populate an ObsservableCollection shown in a ...
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A more functional try…catch construct in Java
I saw a question on Stack Overflow asking for a review of a custom try...catch construct that made use of Optionals, and got the idea to try writing my own version. ...
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Memory managment for RPC code in C
My team has been given care of an old embedded C project. Its main part is a security critical RPC API and I'm trying to create a new design of its internal interfaces to make it more robust against ...
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Lock file and interrupt signals in POSIX shell script running indefinitely
This script is running indefinitely as the Linux background process.
I have put an enormous effort to make this POSIX shell script containing an infinite loop shut down tidily along with the ...
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Function to call a list of callables with retry
This script is designed to be run via windows task scheduler once per day.
All callables passed to this function should only return a bool. The callables are called until either the maximum number of ...
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Using foldl to add numbers, while validating that they are nonnegative
I have a function that will calculate the sum of a list of integer, however if any of the number is negative, it will should an error instead (not throwing exception).
The following is a working ...
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Error handling for an Erlang 2D point class
I am working on a math library for an online game. I want to prevent as many errors as possible and I want to catch all errors as early as possible to simplify debugging in the long run. However, I ...
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Quicksort in C with unit testing framework
This is my quicksort
There are many like it but
This quicksort is mine.
So, quicksort, in C, with a big framework to test it six ways from Sunday. Passed the tests nicely, but there may be warts, or ...
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Printing the status of a database insertion as JSON
The controller is currently inserting a record into the database and returning a JSON response as shown below in the try-catch block. I can see the ...
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Historical exchange rate between currencies using Ecbxrate
I tried writing a simple python script using the python module ecbxrate that outputs to a CSV file a table with the daily exchange rate between EUR and USD since ...
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Reading SQL query from a resource, with error logging
I've created a utility class that expects a logger to be passed at a method level, since I prefer legitimate errors to be written out for troubleshooting later on. Another developer hates passing the ...
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Extension method to to run any async method synchronously
Sometimes I need to call async code from a synchronous method. This leads to repetition in code to wait for the task to complete, then ensure that the expected ...
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A simple ascii progress bar
I've been wanting to experiment with a bit of error handling and robustness to make my code more user friendly. I was inspired by this answer on UX to try and add a progress bar to a button - but was ...
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Testing a probabilistic prime-testing algorithm that may fail
I have implemented Pollard's Rho algorithm in Java. Due to the nature of it there is a small chance for it to fail (have not seen it happening yet).
Since I do not ...
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Simple but important function to check and retry given action's result
What I'm trying to achieve is
Given a predicate function and an action which returns the object to check,
check predicate, retry and fail after numTries .. or success .
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#Error Handling- Propagating errors to calling function.
Im new to javascript programming and i am required to make a web app. Node.js will be used as the js runtime environment. In order to minimize the amount of time needed for debugging as the app ...
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An exception-safe wrapper for std::stoi
std::stoi may throw exceptions so it needs to be surrounded by try/catch.
In applications where std::stoi may be used ...
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Script to clean up old files that should only run one instance
I'm writing a bash script for deleting old files on a Linux server. Here are some relevant facts about this script:
As currently written, it does work as expected. However, it's entirely possible ...
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Function to map letters to numbers
I have a method that converts characters to numbers.
It expects a single alphabetical character and returns the equivalent number.
For example, if A is provided it returns 1, for B it returns 2.
If an ...
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Error-Handling Class and Logging for VBA
I've been reusing an error class in Excel VBA projects for a few years now and I'd like to see if there are ways to improve it. Any suggestions for style, code, etc. are all welcome.
The 2 ...
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Error-Handling Class and Logging
I am relatively new to C# and would like to see if what I have been using for my exception handling, message and logging is along industry standards. I have created a simple class for the Error ...
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Simple API call to get geo info and exception handling with call limiting to 50 request per hour in Python
I'm looking for a code review of this python I wrote - this code reads the zipcode column value from csv and calls the api and brings back lat, lng, state and city info.
It works fine and gives me ...
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Logging util with static lambda function
So again, I am a bit confused about some notes that i'am getting from my reviewer. I have some kind of utils, to print/prepare log messages. Yea, maybe I am a bit fanatic java 8 lambda guy but I think ...
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Generic error handler function for POSIX shell scripts
Intention
I came with the idea of generic, portable, highly reliable, and further customizable function for Shell scripts, written in POSIX, for error handling.
Purpose
The function shall find out, ...
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Calculate total, minimum, maximum and mean from a set of distances
I have only begun to learn C++ and am reading through the book, "Programming Principles and Practices Using C++". This bit of code is my attempt to complete exercise 3 at the end of chapter 4.
The ...
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Given a list of words, remove the shorter word of every pair
This is not a "please do my homework" question. I solved a problem two ways and would like to know which solution is better; better being defined by better readability, lower complexity and lower ...
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WebAPI global exception handler
There is a global exception handler in our WebAPI application that looks like the following:
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