[fdo-internals] Enhanced Exception Types in FDO

[Zac Spitzer]

It would be nice if we had defined error codes ase well which
people could then google to find out more information

ie FDO-0001 FDO-0002 or FDO-NotUniquePropertyvalue

searching for info using generic error phrases is rather difficult

with regards to Franks question, if we look at say JDBC or ODBC
both return the native error code / message

what about returning the generated sql used as well?

one of the oft raised questions on the mapguide list is in regards
to the use of the IN operator

a good example is when you hit a unique index or constraint, assuming the
underlying database has nicely named constraints/indexes, the native
error message
includes the name of the constraint which can be self explanatory

z


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Greg Boone wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> I am currently struggling with the topic of error handling and exceptions
>> in FDO, FDO Providers and applications that use them. I would like to get
>> some feedback from the community on how we could possibly resolve this issue
>> in the next planned release of FDO (trunk).
>
> Greg,
>
> I wonder if you could talk us through a couple examples where the current
> system is inadequate.  I can see value in adding some additional exception
> classes to support finer grained error handling.
>
> I'm concerned that exposing native error codes and provider id's as part
> of exceptions is giving up on genericity in the FDO API.  But if you can
> illustrate cases where this is critical it could be ok.
>
> From the point of view of the GDAL provider, I have no need to provide
> finer grained error information from GDAL itself.  GDAL has a very thin
> set of native error codes, and essentially the error text (which is
> formatted with potentially lots of detail) is the important cargo.
>
> Of course, I have not done much application writing on FDO so it is hard
> for me to know what things applications writers are having trouble handling.
>
> Best regards,
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