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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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 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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Testing application stability by throwing random diagnostic exceptions
I'd like to be able to better test application stability. Usually when you're doing this, you run the application and keep your fingers crossed that it won't crash when an error occurs (be it a ...
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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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Rate-limited geographic data lookup
I'm looking for a code review of this python I wrote - this code reads the zipcode column value from a CSV file and calls an API to retrieve lat, long, 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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Custom C++ exception class with stack trace generation
I wanted to implement my own runtime error class in C++, that could provide more meaningful information on where the error occurred than std::runtime_error does.
I ...
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Error handling for a simple 'fetch some data, then save the data' Node function
This is a fairly simple bit of code:
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Spring API that performs RSA encryption with exception handling [closed]
I'm creating a rest api using Spring which utilize javax.crypto as library to do some encryption stuff. While everything works well, I'm curious whether the error handling like this is acceptable or ...
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Insert Emojis Into Outlook Email With VBA Application (For those of us who cant use add-ins)
I cannot use add ins here so I set out to create an excel application that could get the job done. I suppose that I could easily transport this into outlook?
Basically I want to click one of the ...
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Displaying all application errors in a view
I'm learning ASP.NET Core with MVC pattern and I didn't find anything useful related to this argument.
Actually I'm looking ...
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Running SQL Queries On A Worksheet (With Set Of Random Numbers Between 1-20 Filling Column A) Handled As An ADO
INTRO
I am using an Excel worksheet as my "database." No headers so [F1] is assigned to column one by default. I filled the entire column, all 1,048,576 ...
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Heap implementation for numeric types
I am trying to improve the quality of my code as well as trying to study the Heap data structure. I have implemented a minHeap (Heap in which minimum value nodes ...
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Python client to fetch JSON data from REST API, retrying on failure
As a beginner, I'd like to see if anyone can suggest any better way of coding the below, as I'm duplicating code and nesting identical if statements as part of the following problem.
I'm grabbing ...
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Mechanism to retry failed requests, with throttling
I have a simple event that the client sends to the server, the server can then respond saying if it was successful, or if it failed for some reason.
The client has to send a auth code, which is ...
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Parsing date strings, inferring the year such that the date is not in the future
I got this program that I am working on and in it, I got a section that has a try statement and two error except statements.
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Executing arbitrary SQL statements using VBA in Excel
I built a workbook to help me extract data from a MSSQL database into Excel. I realize that this is fairly easy to do with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, but I can't easily get that installed ...
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Catching missing attribute errors sooner in Python using strict interface specifications
I use Python daily for long-running simulations (yes, very very optimal, I know). As you could probably guess, my coworkers and I have issues with simulations running for several minutes before ...
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Fetching data through HTTP and caching JSON result in a file
The task is to fetch some JSON data from an API with a GET request. If the location is not available for any reason, read a cache file. Otherwise write the cache file for future use.
The following ...
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A tree command written in Rust - Error Handling
I am trying to learn Rust as my third main language (Coming from Java/Kotlin and Javascript/Node). For that purpose I reimplemented the Linux tree command.
Not ...
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ASP.NET REST controller with try-catch error handling
Yesterday someone guided me through this article and I'm wondering whether I should use try-catch implementation or not? I have the following code below which is actually a RESTful service and I have ...
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Creating chart from data fetched from backend
I have a javascript function written which I think is horrible for multiple reasons (which I have tried to mention in the comments in code below).
I want to give it a rewrite following some best ...
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C++ program involving reading and displaying information from a file? [closed]
This is a program I made for practice in file handling in C++. The purpose of the program is to write three nos 1 2 and 3 into a file abc.dat and then read it and display it on the monitor. When I ...
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Using rotation of proxies within a Python script
I've written a script in Python using rotation of proxies which is able to fetch different titles from a website traversing different pages. I've tried to write this scraper in such a way so that it ...
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Representing multiple errors in Go
The MediaWiki API may return multiple errors. Is this a idiomatic way of representing them?
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Custom error-logging
I'm writing a static class to log my application errors into a text file. I am planning on using this as a library on any application I intend to develop in the future. Please let me know how I can ...
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Exception-safety: add cleaning up actions during the execution [closed]
I need to call some functions and clean up some resources acquired after those calls. I can't just call some determined Cleanup function in the end, because during ...
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Rendering server side errors on the client in Node/Express
I've set up a simple Node/Express service that creates new bookmarks to a database.
In my Bookmark schema, one of the fields, URL, has validations. When you try to create a new bookmark without the ...
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Customizing errors based on HTTP status code in golang
I want to collect errors and its causes by defining custom errors (HTTP status 40x & 50x). For example, if user's request was bad, I want more specific reasons for the error.
A customized error ...
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Using Try & Catch to solve exception [closed]
I am working on a ADDIN that works on 3D drafting program. This ADDIN has historically grown and now I am doing a big rewrite.
During this rewrite I came across a issue. I have 2 (fairly similar) ...
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"Always stay connected" mechanism for socket connection
I'm calling Connect() for the first time I connect, I am then checking if the connection is still connected every 10 seconds if it is not connected it attempts to ...
