On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pavel schreef: >> >> //sorry for my english >> >> Firstly, this list of exception show only registered in system exceptions, > > yes I know, I wrote exactly that in the first line of my post. > >> which (excluding one-two) are exceptions of some php >> mobules:mysqli,sqllite and so on... > > it's 5 actually, I mentioned that also. > >> I use only Exception class and my extends on it (so and exceptions from >> your list are extends...). > > yes, I know. they have to, it's an engine requirement, if you STW you can > even find a class heirarchy diagram that documents them. > > the point is I'm writing a small site/app and I can't be arsed to > write a stack of custom Exceptions and an autoloader etc because it's too > much hassle for the simplistic nature of what I'm putting together > > ... so I figured I'd use built-in exceptions where I can because being > able to differentiate certain 'types' of exception is quite handy, making > everything a plain Exception is rather blunt (rather like doing surgery > with a spoon). > > ... which is where my original question(s) come in. personally I find > the built-ins rather useless unless you fancy being super pendantic with > your exceptions (UnderflowException anyone?!?), seems the built-in > exceptions > don't really cover (m)any general situations. > > maybe a missing config file should be a RunTimeException ... > > still leaves the questions as to what a DomainException and a ErrorException > is meant to model. > I have no idea on those two, but I can see use for things like InvalidArgumentException, OutOfRangeException or the like in some cases. In no case would I send something so low-level back to the user, but they can be useful in input validation for functions to make sure the data you are processing is what it should be. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
