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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Provide one file where all error messages are defined in c++ [closed]
I would like to store all error messages in one file and call them for example with
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Beginning BMI calculator in Java
This is my first program so no doubt I've made mistakes. The code works and meets all requirements as far as I can see.
(Further info: program to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) allowing user to ...
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Implementation of SCPI for control of test instruments
I work with electronics test equipment. I like to be able to automate tests using their remote control interfaces. I have built a pattern, a few base classes, that I can apply to all devices that ...
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Interpret a date from a string of digits
I developed a function that, from a given sequence of digits, extracts the date and reformat it.
This is the code:
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Handling errors in an input based program
I wrote a program which creates a svg-group that contains several arranged rectangles with passages inbetween to reach all of the rectangles inside of an area selected by the user. Each rectangle ...
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Error handling in Go
I have a function which returns an error. I would like to handle this error on the caller function, so I need to know the reason of the error in the caller function.
Below there is my solution, but I ...
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Asynchronous parallel ForEach implemented using Task.Run
I wrote a simple implementation of aysnc parallel.ForEach( ... )
All it really does is create a list of tasks and wait for them all to complete and aggregate the ...
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Python implementation of atoi
I made an implementation of atoi (ascii to integer) in Python a while ago for fun, and I'd like to know what I could do to improve it.
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Connect to database, handling errors
I try to handle or catch possible errors with PHP/MySQL for security reasons and would like to know if I'm doing it right.
The first case, connection: I use it as a function and call it always when ...
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Single vs Multiple Try Catch
I have this code which is a third-party transfer for ATM console app. For best practice, should I just put all the code into one try block or with multiply try block like below?
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A simple but useful error handler
I am trying to make a very simple error handler that would catch and handle all kinds of errors in both development and production environments. The idea is to keep it as simple as possible yet useful ...
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Poor error handling: Throw inside Finally
I have the following code which I am running through fortify. Why it gets marked for poor error handling, throw inside finally?
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Network helper class with retry logic on failure
I wrote an helper class which allow me to request the body content from a site that is created by AJAX, for doing so I'm using <...
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PHP display Error Wanings Yellow @ bottom of Page with PHP_EOL
I initially started searching for a PHP script which would output PHP errors, to the JavaScript console. As the Default behaviour is just to spit them out anywhere and displace everything else.
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Clean up code that transfers data from DB2 Server to Excel
The code below is functional and works as expected, but I imagine there is a better way to test for the error that I am testing for .
The scenario is that data is transferred between two different ...
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Go functions to create a directory if it doesn't exist
Which of the 2 solutions is written better? Personally I prefer the one line method but it does make it slightly more difficult to debug. Is perhaps doing it the long way first then refactoring to ...
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C# TCP server/client class
Goal
My goal is to create a TCP server/client class that can be universally reused in various private projects. It should work stable and does not need to be super fast, but rather light-weight to ...
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error-specific tryCatch
R doesn't have classed errors, just (for the most part) error and warning, so determining if the error should be caught or ...
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PHP function to check if something valid or return error message [closed]
I would like to make a function that checks if something is valid, but if it can't then I want to return an error message that will probably be used to to throw an exception.
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Validating partially filled objects
The following classes are a simplification of an auto-generated code of an ORM (targeting Microsoft's Dynamics CRM):
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Try-catch-finally snippet [closed]
Using visual studio I created a snippet which helps me surround my already written or new code into a try-catch-finally block. I use axios for REST so there had to be separate error handling method so ...
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Jsoup connection to URL
I have simple class that I want to ask if is there any possible to improve it? I mean, for me it looks poor. Is there any way to use here try-with-resources, stream or ...
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AWS plugin to create a CloudFormation stack if it doesn't exist
The following Python class is what I am trying to refactor in the case where I have to add validation of the existence of an AWS cloudformation stack before creating it in the method create_cfn_stack :...
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Error handling in express without middlewares and using class structure
This is a simple implementation of Django's sample project "Poll" using and express.
The controller code:
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Detecting the presence of multiple URL segments
I have two versions of a function that performs the same task, however I'm not sure which one to use. Speed is something to take into consideration, but I also want to know what the best practice is. ...
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Go function to test whether a file exists [closed]
How could one write in a more elegant way that if error is null, the result is true? I really need a bool as returned value.
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Send / receive wrapper for System.Net.Sockets - follow-up
I recently posted a question about improving thread and socket safety in my NetworkEndpoint class. previous post
I have implemented the changes suggested in the answer I got there. When I asked for a ...
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Enumerating AWS instances in Rails, with error handling
I have created a method, which is raising the same exception in case of any error:
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Compiling all Exception messages into a string
Below is a recursive function I've written that's responsible for compiling a string consisting of a Exception's message, and also each of that ...
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Send / receive wrapper for System.Net.Sockets
The following NetworkEndpoint class serves as a simple send / receive interface for either side of a network connection (client or server) when provided with a ...
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Skipping over failed imports until they are needed (if ever)
We have a program with many dependencies. Because the user may not want to use all of them, the program should skip over failed imports and only raise an error if absolutely necessary. e.g. if the ...
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Complexity of a service method to fetch search results from an API
I tried the plug in CodeMetrics for Visual Studio Code along with some of my current Angular projects, and I was a little suprised about the outcome.
I have a ...
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PHP Error handler class
I set up an error handler class to handle all server errors, I know there are already quite a few out there, but I like creating my own for better learning and understanding of how things work.
I am ...
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What is wrong with my 'except' code here? [closed]
I am learning python and am working through some try and except codes. What is wrong here?
The code aims to convert the input ...
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msmq bulk send in c# [closed]
Please review the code below and provide constructive feedback to improve.
Multiple threads call the SendMessageToMSMQ method to send messages to a msmq queue.
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Thread safe Shareable and Splittable Buffer with Safe Memory (Project)
Backstory
This is a buffer I wrote for use in multiple personal projects. It is designed
to handle pretty much any data in pretty much any way. In particular I intend to
use it in such instances as ...
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Should I re-throw exceptions within a method, or is there a better way to handle it? [closed]
When handling errors in C#, is it acceptable/appropriate to re-throw exceptions that are caught in a try/catch?
My scenario is that I am making an HTTP request and ...
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Async in Railway Oriented Programming in F#
In F# the Railway Oriented Programming pattern can be implemented synchronously using the Result<'t,'terr> type as result value for functions, so they can be ...
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PHP LDAP credentials validation and error handling
I developed this group of scripts to validate users againts a LDAP server and presenting the appropiate message to the user after sending the information.
I wonder if I'm handling everything properly ...
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Thread-safe stack in Java with fixed capacity
Implement a multi-threaded stack, with freedom to use existing
implementations of stack. On top of being thread-safe, it must block
(not busy-wait) a pushing thread when stack is full and a ...
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Validating that a Java program has two equal-length arguments
I'm writing a small almost one method Java class for a job application and the advice given was to write it as though it was a piece of commercial software.
The ...
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Typescript monad for data being loaded
I have been struggling to make typescript happy about the types.
I am pulling data from our backend API and I wanted to give context to the data. Basically it is a monad with 4 shapes:
Initial (...
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Interactive command-line binary to decimal converter
Is this the most efficient way to write this piece of code? Is there a better way of handling errors inside of a while/for loop, instead of calling back to the original function? I have tried using <...
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Get result from form website operation
I want to get a result from the website when I submit a form. There are several things that can go wrong.
In a simple scenario I want to return:
true - when ...
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Exception, errors handling, best practice in WebApi Core
I'm making my WebApi project.
My logic is, the controller didn't see data. It only triggers a service that returns objects to it. My simple method from ...
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Generic function that accepts both Actions and Func's as parameters
I've created a generic try catch I can apply throughout my code so I'm not repeating myself.
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Making Oauth request asynchronously, with retry if token has expired
I'm struggling with asynchronous code. Does anyone have suggestions of a better way to do the following?
What I'm doing: hitting an API (google's, actually), with a call that might get a 401 if the ...
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Wrap a callback method in an awaitable method
I'm using a .NET library which uses a pre-async/await type of asynchronicity. That is, it provides asynchronous (non-awaitable) method with a callback parameter.
I'm trying to write awaitable ...
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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 ...
