Re: values for fields in failure/exception
mark jason <markjason72@gmail.com> writes:
In my program , I am returning a MyResult instance containing values
from a calculation.If an exception occurs ,I would like to return the
object with values which represent a failed calculation .The problem
is that,I cannot put distance as 0.0 since it is one of the valid
distance values.
The purely object-oriented solution is as follows:
calculate( expression, success, failure );
. ?calculate? does the calculation based on the object
?expression? and then calls the ?acceptResult? method of the
object ?success? if the calculation was a success or the
?acceptFailure? method of the object ?failure? if the
calculation failed.
A partially object-oriented solution is as follows:
interface Result {};
class SuccessResult implements Result { /* result data here */ };
....
final Result result = calculate();
if( result instanceof SuccessResult )
{ final SuccessResult successResult =( SuccessResult)result;
/* use data here */ }
else
{ /* error handling */ }
Another solution uses exceptions:
try
{ final Result result = calculate();
/* use data here */ }
catch( final CouldNotCalculateException couldNotCalculateException )
{ /* error handling */ }
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