[Zope-dev] Catching (external database connectivity) specific exceptions

[Chris Withers]

Clemens Robbenhaar wrote:
>  But it is a base exception class in ZOracleDA, however. Thus the
> product using it need to explicitely import this exception, and thus
> explicitely depend on the used relational database; code needs to be
> rewritten if one exchanges the external data base.

So, you got sucked into the myth of SQL too? ;-)
You'll need to rewrite at least some of your SQL if you change backends, so I 
don't see this as a huge problem...

> Well, um, yes, at least I am asking if it makes sense to keep the exception
> DA.DatabaseError in the code, even it it is not yet / no longer used. 

I think it's good ot keep it there so DA authors can subclass it, but not for 
stuff to be caught and re-raised as is happening now...

cheers,

Chris

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