Hello Jochem, lookup the archieves. We have long ago decided agains that. marcus Friday, August 5, 2005, 2:26:04 PM, you wrote: > Dear Internals, > class FooBar { public function foo() throws Exception {} } > function fooFoo() throws Exception {} > this came up on php-generals and I wondered if anyone had time/cared > to comment if it (as it does to me) seems like a good idea and/or whether it is > technically feasable. My thinking was that one could then use the reflection API > to determine whether functions/methods are capable of throwing exceptions and or > what kind - might be quite handy when using third party apps/classes > (PEAR springs to mind.) > thanks and regards, > Jochem > <the rest is blabla aimed at php-generals> > Torgny Bjers wrote: >> Norbert Wenzel wrote: >> >>>If there is a class with a function, that might throw exceptions and >>>does NOT catch them, may I write that like in Java? >>> >>>class FooClass { >>> >>> public function foo() throws Exception { > think about this, especially in terms of the Reflection API, it sounds > like a really good idea (at least to me) >>> >>> } >>> >>>} >>> >>>Or is there another possibility to tell a function throws an exception >>>and to force the caller to handle that exception? >>> >>>thanks in advance, >>> >>>Norbert >>> >> >> >> Hello Norbert, >> >> The Java way doesn't work here. The best approach would be to simply run >> a try/catch/finally around the call to your function/method, and inside >> the function itself you do the following: >> >> if (...) { throw new Exception("My message."); } } >> > indeed - bottom line is you have to know that a function/method/extension may > throw. mostly you do know because: > 1. you wrote the code, > 2. or it's documented in the extension manual pages > 3. and/ro you hit an unacaught exception whilst developing. > my approach to cover any oversights is to wrap every thing in a main try/catch block > just in case - keeping in mind that the idea is that this 'main' catch block is never run > is al goes well. >> Regards, >> Torgny >> Best regards, Marcus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php