Re: Solution for: throwing exception classes explicitly
Fei Liu <feiliu@aepnetworks.com> wrote in news:f1qe4h$o2h$1@aioe.org:
nospam_news@wanano.net wrote:
Thank you Keith Halligan.
To keep the information in the signatures, we now use an empty
declarative substitute, so the developer can see from the header, what
he might have to catch.
#include "iostream"
#if ( GCC_VERSION > 30000 )
# define declare_throw(Exception) throw(Exception)
#else
# define declare_throw(Exception)
#endif
class Exception {
public:
Exception(int);
void setErrNo(int i) declare_throw(Exception);
int errNo;
};
Exception::Exception(int e) {
errNo=e;
}
void Exception::setErrNo(int i) declare_throw(Exception) {
auto Exception methodException(2);
errNo=i;
throw(methodException);
};
int main(char argc, char *argv[], char *env[]) {
try {
auto Exception mainException(1);
mainException.setErrNo(42);
} catch (Exception caughtException) {
std::cout << "caught caughtException:" << caughtException.errNo <<
std::endl;
}
}
This is a good practical solution. Did you try throw(Exception *)? Or
is
that something not allowed in C++? I belive you can throw string,
integer etc. So you could throw a string message as well.
Be careful when throwing pointers as exceptions. Specifically, what is
the pointer going to be pointing at by the time the catch clause is
evaluated. If you've thrown a pointer to a local variable, it will be
out of scope by the time the catch clause executes.
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