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login Username: * Password: * Create new accountRequest new password Home » DBI: handling database errors ( perl dbi execute error handling categories: databases ) Basically, there are two ways of handling database errors, check
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(almost) every DBI call for errors or set 'RaiseError' attribute to '1ยด: -- Manual checking This way, you
Perl Dbi Connect Error Handling
have to add code yourself to check for database error conditions, so after nearly every method call you should check if the operation completed successfully. There are two DBI methods that
Perl Dbi Handleerror
are very helpful to manually check for database errors: 'err' and 'errstr'. 'err' returns the native database engine error code from the last DBI method called. The code returned is usually an integer. 'errstr' returns the native database engine error message from the last DBI method called. Example: $dbh = DBI->connect($data_src, $user, $pwd) or die $DBI::errstr;
my $sth perl dbi errstr = $dbh->prepare("DELETE FROM table WHERE count < '?'");
$sth->execute(25);
if ( $sth->err )
{
die "ERROR! return code: . $sth->err . " error msg: " . $sth->errstr . "\n";
}
-- Setting 'RaiseError' attribute If DBI 'RaiseError' attribute is set to '1' (is '0' by default), then any database error will cause the DBI module to 'die' with an appropriate message. When using 'RaiseError', is recommended to set the 'PrintError' atribute to '0') Example: my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pw, { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0 });
Bookmark/Search this post with: | | | | » login or register to post comments You can also provide a Submitted by Kelicula on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 00:58. You can also provide a custom sub to handle errors with the RaiseError flag set. After establishing server connection: $dbh->{HandleError} = sub { my $error = shift; # do something with error...; }; Or in attributes: my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:......, { RaiseError => 1, HandleError => \&DBerror })|| die $DBI::errstr; sub DBerror { my $error = shift; # do som
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Tutorials Poetry RecentThreads NewestNodes Donate What'sNew on Apr 14, 2000 at 03:36UTC ( #7568=perltutorial: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help?? Tricks with DBI 1. Check for database errors. You're going http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=7568 to run into errors with databases for similar reasons that you do when using system calls and the like. And just as you should always check the return code of your system calls, so should you always check the return status of your database calls. The easiest way to do this is by setting DBI's perl dbi RaiseError attribute to 1; first connect to the database (and check the return), then set the RaiseError attribute: my $dbh = DBI->connect('foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'mysql') or die "Can't connect: ", $DBI::errstr; $dbh->{RaiseError} = 1; [download] By doing this, you ensure that any database error will cause a die. Why is this good? Because generally, if you're perl dbi execute writing a database application and you have a database error, you don't want to continue as if nothing happened. :) (Besides, you can always catch the die in an eval; just make sure that you handle the errors rather than ignoring them.) The other way to check for errors, of course, is to check the return of each method call, eg.: my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select id from foo") or die "Can't prepare: ", $dbh->errstr; $sth->execute or die "Can't execute: ", $dbh->errstr; [download] So as not to make your code one big C-like mess of error checking, though, you might as well just use RaiseError. 2. Use placeholders instead of literal values. This is covered pretty thoroughly in What are placeholders in DBI. Suffice it to say here, then, that you should use placeholders instead of literal values. Always (or pretty much, at least). And, for the same reasons, you should use prepare_cached instead of prepare. 3. The fastest way to fetch. When you execute a