Re: Exception handling
Daniel Pitts wrote:
Andre Rothe wrote:
Hello!
I try to find some information about a best-practice exception
framework. Maybe this group can help me.
An application throws an exception within a low-level method, let us
say, within a database access layer. It has occured as reaction of a
wrong value given by the user. The method can throw the exception, the
next higher abstraction layer can rollback the associated database
operation and throw it up to the client application.
This is a bad pattern.
The low-level methods should through exceptions which indicate
programmer error. Higher-level methods should validate *before* calling
lower-level methods. The high-level methods can either throw
appropriate exceptions or directly report problems to the user.
I have written more about this in a blog post:
<http://virtualinfinity.net/wordpress/program-design/2009/11/29/levels-of-error-handling/>
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