[Zope-Coders] RFC: Death to string exceptions

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:55, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> In article <1069094099.2027.100.camel at localhost.localdomain> you write:
> > > NuxCPS/skins/folder_retitle.py:    except 'Unauthorized': # Unauthorized, object must be locked
> > > NuxWorkgroup/skins/workgroup_retitle.py:    except 'Unauthorized': # Unauthorized, object must be 
> > > locked
> > > mxmRelations/mxmRelations.py:            except 'Unauthorized':
> > 
> > As with content_status_modify, should be catching
> > zExceptions.Unauthorized.
> 
> Yeah but we also have to be compatible with CMF here, which still has
> a bunch of
>   raise 'Unauthorized'
> or
>   Unauthorized = 'Unauthorized'
>   raise Unauthorized
> (in CMFCore, CMFDefault and DCWorkflow. And CMFCollector.)
> 
> Also we'll have to be backward compatible with older versions.


Right.  Going forward, we should remove the raising of strings from CMF
and other add-on products;  backward compatibility with older Zopes (or
older CMFs) will have to be juggled.

Tres.
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