[Catalyst-dev] A suggestion(or question) about exception handling.

[Chae Lee]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:16 PM, John Napiorkowski <jjn1056 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

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> --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Chae Lee <yuand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Chae Lee <yuand2 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Catalyst-dev] A suggestion(or question) about exception
> handling.
> > To: "Development of the elegant MVC web framework" <
> catalyst-dev at lists.scsys.co.uk>
> > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 7:32 PM
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Matt S Trout
> > <dbix-class at trout.me.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:16:55PM -0400, Chae Lee
> > wrote:
> > > > hi all,
> > > >
> > > > in my Catalyst application, I'm using my own
> > exception handling based on
> > > > "Error.pm", and used to ask myself what
> > if Catalyst provided the
> > > facility.
> > > >
> > > > I know there are several ways in error(or
> > exception) handling in Perl,
> > > but,
> > > > anyway my favorite is "try/catch."
> > > >
> > > > today I saw Catalyst::Exception. It wasn't
> > what I expected.
> > > >
> > > > so... is there already any extension based on
> > Error.pm in Catalyst OR any
> > > > plan??
> > >
> > > Extension for what?
> > >
> > > There's nothing to stop you using Error.pm in the
> > Catalyst app - I don't
> > > really see what Catalyst needs to do about it?
> > >
> >
> > I thought my email was sucked up. Good job Matt ^^
> >
> > Well... using Error.pm in Catalyst doesn't depend on
> > Catalyst, but it can
> > save some extra work if
> > provided.
>
> I wonder if there are not two issues here.  If you just want Error.pm for
> your Controllers, you can make one that contains it.  You'll just have to
> export Error's namespace into your base controller and then all your cust=
om
> controllers would inherit from that instead of Catalyst::Controller.
>  However if what you are saying is that Catalyst should have a more fine
> grained error hierarchy (something like Java Spring comes to mind when I
> think of a web development framework with something like this) that's a
> totally different question.  Since Catalyst is somewhat minimal, I don't
> really see the value of that.  It doesn't really play into the way most P=
erl
> programmer's go about things.  Although a CatalystX package to provide
> default methods for 404, 5xx style http errors might be welcomed.  Like
> "CatalystX::Rescue" or similar?  I know Apache also provides this.
>
> JohnN



and the "minimal" is a buzz word, right?   ( I've gotten what Matt and you
meant of :-)

Thanks a lot man
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