I am migrating some of my activities to FragmentActivity using the compatibility library. I was using onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() to save an AsyncTask between re-creations, but since this is now final, the recommended approach seems to be to replace my AsyncTask with a loader. I now have a class derived from AsyncTaskLoader that does basically the same thing as the old AsyncTask, and I am trying to figure out what the best approach to handle load errors is.
LoaderManger/Loader don't have any support for error handling (no onLoadError(), etc. Why?), and any unhandled exceptions just bubble up. Which means one needs to make sure loadInBackground() doesn't throw and get your process killed (at least that's what happens when using the compatibility library). To pass error info to the callback you need to either: 1. use the return value: wrap any results in a class that has an Exception member in addition to the actual result, and check if is null or not in onLoaderFinished(); or 2. save the error state in the Loader, cast it in onLoaderFinished() and check for errors 1. seems rather awkward if type safe, 2. is not too pretty either. Any other ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
