[Zope-dev] Exceptions

[Chris Withers]

Oh if only!!!

I love this idea, and comments haev coem from DC along those same lines,
btu nothing ever really happened about it...

cheers,

Chris

seb bacon wrote:
> 
> I was just building in some error handling into some UI code, and wanted to catch errors relating to duplicate ids.  The problem is that just about every client-side error raises the same kind of Exception, a 'Bad Request'.  A quick grep counted 41 different types of 'Bad Request' in my Zope source.
> 
> Wouldn't it be *much* nicer to have a hierarchy of exception types, so that applications can deal with them at an arbitrarily granular level?  e.g.
> 
> ZopeException
>     |
>     `RequestException
>       |  |
>       |  `XMLException
>       |
>       `IdException
>         |  |
>         |  `ReservedWordException
>         |
>         `DuplicateException
> 
> Has this discussion taken place before?  Would it be useful?  Would its effort:benfits ratio be too great to justify doing?
> 
> seb
> 
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