Re: Is it possible to catch an exception raised by a member variable?
Angus wrote:
I have a class I am using which raises an exception in its constructor
if certain things aren't in place. I can easily create the situation
where an exception is raised.
OK. So creation of a subobject fails. Quite common.
If I use the create a member variable in a class using this class then
how do I catch the exception?
The exception has to be caught by the code that instantiates (or rather
tries to instantiate) the host object.
For now I have defined a member function as a pointer and in my
constructor in my class using the class which raises the exception, I
do a try catch block and do a new object. That works. But is it
possible to do a similar thing using a member variable?
Yes, but if your member fails to be constructed, can your object still
exist and function? If it can, you should use the pointer solution,
which apparently works. If your object cannot exist and function with
some part of it missing, then you should do nothing, the constructor
of the entire object will throw (because some part of it throws), and
the exception has to be caught outside.
V
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