Re: Exception Questions (HTTP_Request2 & Services_Digg2)

Hi Steve, On 10.06.2010 17:46, Steve Williams wrote:

In the PEAR coding standards, I don't see any requirement to include a numeric code when throwing exceptions. Nor to throw an error-specific exception subclass. http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.errors.php Indeed, HTTP_Request2 throws exceptions with only a textual description. So how might I write code to catch and recover from specific errors? For example, HTTP_Request2::send() can throw HTTP_Request2_Exception with: - "Error writing request" - "Request timed out after N second(s)"

If you are using Curl adapter then it can also be whatever error message curl itself returns.

I'd like my app to recover from the timeout but re-throw the other error. Am I missing how to do that? Should PEAR packages use numerical error codes to allow that? Or error-specific exception subclasses?

There is a feature request open for HTTP_Request2: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16762 The problem is proper mapping of error codes and messages returned by curl, stream_socket_client(), etc.