Re: Deleting exceptions after throwing
On Sep 25, 10:48 am, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 24, 1:18 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
Emil Berg <emilbe...@gmail.com> writes:
On Sep 24, 1:57 pm, Alan Woodland <aj...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
Emil Berg wrote:
[snip]
What I want to do is pass exceptions between threads. I
have some exception classes that derive from
CBaseException class. Now I'm doing the following steps:
1. Throw FileNotFoundException on thread A
2. Catch it as CBaseException and save it in an CBaseException*
pointer.
3. Pass this pointer to thread B
4. Throw this exception manually.
5. Catching the exception on thread B as FileNotFoundException
reference
Steps 2,3,4 are part of a threading/messaging
infrastructure that I'm building, so I'd like to delete
the exception on thread B after throwing it (inside the
infrastructure). I don't want the user to delete the
exception.
I hope that I explained it well and maybe you have a good
idea to solve it.
Why not use something like auto_ptr around step 4 so that
when you hit the throw it gets deleted during stack
unwinding?
If I throw auto_ptr<FileNotFoundException> then the user
needs to catch auto_ptr<FileNotFoundException>. I want the
user to catch just FileNotFoundException and not its
auto_ptr.
class TheActualFileNotFoundException:public std::exception {
...};
typedef auto_ptr<TheActualFileNotFoundException> FileNotFoundException;
That doesn't work for inheritance hierarchies. In other words,
if you throw auto_ptr< TheActualFileNotFoundException >, it
won't be caught by:
catch ( auto_ptr< TheActualExceptionBaseType > const& )
Which sort of defeats the purpose of subclassing.
--
James Kanze
* When I override Clone() in each child class, I write the following
line of code (For instance, in the class of FileNotFound):
return auto_ptr<CloneableException>(new FileNotFoundException(*this));
* When I override Throw() in each child clss, I write the following:
throw *this;
*When catching in the middle I use the following:
catch (const CloneableException& ex)
{
exPassed = ex.Clone();
}
*Then I rethrow it this way:
CloneableException* ex = exPassed.get();
ex->Throw();
*At the end I catch it this way:
catch(const FileNotFoundException& ex)
And it worked for me.
Thanks!
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