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to get to know more on how other people, more experienced, prefer to handle errors/exceptions in respect perl eval croak to the structure of your programs. Let me describe how I'm doing it now and, if you have some time to share your experience, I'd be very grateful https://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_error_handling.htm to you for describing how do you prefer to do it. My own "rules" for myself are quite simple. Don't die() while executing a subrotine or method. Only the main module can die() if something goes wrong. Nobody can predict where the class will be used, so an unexpected die() can break the caller's logic. If I've http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1102209 got an exception inside of a subroutine, the subroutine may return(undef). If everything's fine, it return's some value (it can be true or false - no matter), but if some error has been occuried (e.g. if we can't get data from the database), the undef shall be returned. That's okay, but how to let the caller know what's happened with the subroutine? As I think, the caller must have some explaination to be able to write something to the log-file or to show the error message to the operator. So, there is one more rule. Any class may have the "errstr" attribute, so if its' methor returned undef, the caller may get the explaination from this attribute. So, usually it looks like this: package SomeClass; #... sub some_method { # ... eval { die("Oops!"); }; if($@) { $self->{'errstr'} = "Something has gone wrong: $@"; return(undef) } # ... } #... package main; #... my $result = $obj->some_method; unless(defined($result)) { die("Can't SomeClass->some_method(): $obj->{'errstr'}"); } #... [download] And, when
Perl and how to implement it using Error.pm. On our way, we'll be touching upon the advantages of using exception-handling http://www.perl.com/pub/2002/11/14/exception.html over traditional error-handling mechanisms, exception handling with eval {}, problems with eval {} and the functionalities available in Fatal.pm. But by and large, our focus we'll be on using Error.pm http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH5A_8.0.0/com.ibm.rational.clearquest.apiref.doc/topics/c_perl_err_hndling.htm for exception handling. What Is an Exception ? An exception can be defined as an event that occurs during the execution of a program that deviates it from the perl error normal execution path. Different types of errors can cause exceptions. They can range from serious errors such as running out of virtual memory to simple programming errors such as trying to read from an empty stack or opening an invalid file for reading. An exception usually carries with it three important pieces of information: The type of exception - determined perl error handling by the class of the exception object Where the exception occurred - the stack trace Context information - error message and other state information An exception handler is a piece of code used to gracefully deal with the exception. In the rest of article, the terms exception handler and catch block will be used interchangeably. By choosing exceptions to manage errors, applications benefit a lot over traditional error-handling mechanisms. All the advantages of using exception handling are discussed in detail in the next section. Advantages of Using Exception Handling Object-oriented exception handling allows you to separate error-handling code from the normal code. As a result, the code is less complex, more readable and, at times, more efficient. The code is more efficient because the normal execution path doesn't have to check for errors. As a result, valuable CPU cycles are saved. Another important advantage of OO exception handling is the ability to propagate errors up the call stack. This happens automatically without you, the programmer, explicitly checking for return values and returning them to the call