Re: Error supressing in PHP5 [was PEAR_Interop... [was PEAR_Warning...]]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:56:40 +0100, Jon Wood <jellybob@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:06:54 -0700, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:51:36 +0100, Jon Wood <jellybob@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've never used set_exception_handler, but could a custom handler be > > > developed (possibly along with PEAR_Exception) which would allow a > > > list of exceptions to expect and ignore be developed, with anything > > > that isn't expected being displayed? > > > > > > This would also work for non-PEAR packages, since it would simple be > > > given the list of classes to expect, and would allow trees of > > > exceptions to be ignored by defining their parent class > > > (PEAR_Exception...) as one to ignore. > > > > > > > Unless all of the refs I found from google are wrong (this isn't in > > the docs yet...argh!), this function is only called when an exception > > reaches the top level uncaught. This would mean that the stack has > > already been unraveled, so this wouldn't work unless it: > > 1) is run for *every* exception > > 2) allows for stopping an exception form being thrown (ie, re-throw > > the exception or return true if you want the exception to keep going) > > > Isn't the only ones that are a problem the ones that get to the top > level without being caught anyway - if you've already caught an > exception then you obviously aren't worried about it needing to be > suppressed anyway. > True, but the call stack would already be unraveled, making it impossible to continue. In addition, the idea was to make *all* of a certain type of exception into warnings...which would bypass the catch blocks. I guess that could possibly screw up lower level error handling...hmmm... > > > > This wouldn't really be the same function as the current > > set_exception_handler(). If this did get implemented, I would suggest > > that the current set_exception_handler() be renamed to > > set_default_exception_handler() and the new function be > > set_exception_handler(). > > -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--