Re: fhpd vs RuntimeExceptions

[Sami Wagiaalla <swagiaal@redhat.com>]

Phil Muldoon wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:01 +0000, Phil Muldoon wrote:
>>  
>>> As talked about on IRC over the corefile message design, exceptions 
>>> can and are used to carry warnings, messages and so on. How do you 
>>> differentiate between a warning and an error in this case?
>>>     
>>
>> By using different exception types, so a higher level can distinquish
>> between a "recoverable" warning and a "unrecoverable" error.
>>   
>
> Like I mentioned in reply to Sami's email yesterday, having a napi 
> throw several different unchecked exception types places a huge and 
> unfair burden on the user to know the code beyond the api. The places 
> "must be an expert on Frysk to call Frysk apis" charge at our feet.
The user doent have to know about any exceptions that are thrown and 
caught within the library (ie exceptions used for comunication). But if 
an exception bubbles up to that user, and we are following the system 
described above then that is infact an error and that user must have 
done something bad and should be notified in very clear manner.