Perl Dbi Error Catching
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the answer generally runs along the lines of "Why aren't you performing error checking?" Sure enough, nine out of ten times when error perl dbi connect error handling checking is added, the exact error message appears and the cause for
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error is obvious. 4.5.1. Automatic Versus Manual Error Checking Early versions of the DBI required programmers to perform their perl dbi handleerror own error checking, in a traditional way similar to the examples listed earlier for connecting to a database. Each method that returned some sort of status indicator as to its
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success or failure should have been followed by an error condition checking statement. This is an excellent, slightly C-esque way of programming, but it quickly gets to be tiresome, and the temptation to skip the error checking grows. The DBI now has a far more straightforward error-handling capability in the style of exception s. That is, when DBI internally detects that dbi error fatal an error has occurred after a DBI method call, it can automatically either warn() or die() with an appropriate message. This shifts the onus of error checking away from the programmer and onto DBI itself, which does the job in the reliable and tireless way that you'd expect. Manual error checking still has a place in some applications where failures are expected and common. For example, should a database connection attempt fail, your program can detect the error, sleep for five minutes, and automatically re-attempt a connection. With automatic error checking, your program will exit, telling you only that the connection attempt failed. DBI allows mixing and matching of error-checking styles by allowing you to selectively enable and disable automatic error checking on a per-handle basis. 4.5.1.1. Manual error checking Of course, the DBI still allows you to manually error check your programs and the execution of DBI methods. This form of error checking is more akin to classic C and Perl programming, where each important statement is checked to ensure that it has executed successfully, allowing the program to take evasi
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handling database errors ( categories: databases ) Basically, there are two
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ways of handling database errors, check (almost) every DBI call for errors or set 'RaiseError' attribute to dbi err fatal '1ยด: -- Manual checking This way, you have to add code yourself to check for database error conditions, so after nearly every method call you should check if http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/dbi/ch04_05.htm the operation completed successfully. There are two DBI methods that 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. http://www.perlhowto.com/dbi_handling_database_errors Example: $dbh = DBI->connect($data_src, $user, $pwd) or die $DBI::errstr;
my $sth = $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 er
Poetry RecentThreads NewestNodes Donate What'sNew on Jun 23, 2003 at 14:47UTC ( #268189=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help?? Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Help ?!?!?Using DBI I call a PL/SQL package and hand http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=268189 it some variables. This package does some validation of the data, when the package is not happy with the data an SQL error is raised.What I want to do is instead of having DBI die, I want to see the error in a variable so I can process this and send back an error to the user.The variables are handed in via a webpage and errors should be returned on perl dbi that page (thus the dislike of a die)I have seen some solutions to this, but these usualy use a eval{} to solve the problem. Due to the application framework that I'm forced to work in this will not work as a die is always caught before my code can get to it.So what I wat is a way to find the errors returned without death.The ways I have atempted to perl dbi error get these errors from the DBI are: - my $error = $dbh->errstr; - my $error = $@The problem is that both are always undefined no matter how may errors the package returns. So my question is how do I find the errors without having the DBI calling dieThis is my config: - Perl v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris - DBI DBI version 1.34 - Oracle DBD complited with Oracle 8.1.7 clientComment on DBI - PL/SQL error catchingSelect or Download Code Replies are listed 'Best First'. Re: DBI - PL/SQL error catching by gmax (Abbot) on Jun 23, 2003 at 15:15UTC If eval id not a viable solution, then you have to check every DBI call, but only after you instruct the DBI not to do anything in case of errors. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; # # ---- untested # my ($dns, $user, $password) = ("dbi:wathever:db","me","secret"); my $dbh = DBI->connect($dns,$user,$password, {RaiseError=>0 , PrintError=>0}) # <-- be quiet! or die "can't connect ($DBI::errstr)\n"; my $sth= $dbh->prepare("SELECT WRONG FROM NON_EXISTING"); if ($sth) { # fetch your records while (my $rec = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) { print "@$rec\n"; } } else { print "something was wrong: ", $dbh->errstr, "\n"; # deal with the problem here } [download] Notice that you can't use $dbh->errst