> > > >> Assuming you are doing all that and giving the best user friendly message >>> to the user possible, you still might have a vested interest in the nitty >>> gritty details of those exceptions to fix the problem. Original poster's >>> query is very legitimate. >>> >> Why? How can you fix IOException? >> >> > > If you believe that logcat logs are never helpful for tracking down > issues, we can agree to disagree. > Never said that.
> You stated above that "most of the runtime exception indicate bugs in > code." Are you to assume that a handled checked exception means that there > aren't any bugs in the code? I don't, and that's why log messages can be > helpful. > Never said that either. > An IOException isn't necessarily the end of the story. You could be not > using the right timeouts, the right credentials, or the right format. The > user could have problems with DNS. Could you retry more or less times? > Could you do something different on the server, if you control it? Are > there some changes on a server you do not control? Is the user choosing an > invalid path or filename and are you letting them do that when you > shouldn't? > And never said that. You are attacking a strawman. I've commented on a very specific quote from original post: > The alternative is to start removing catch clauses so that the app will, > in fact, crash and the developer can at least see something. This seems > like a silly approach, though. >From this and rest of the post I get an impression (maybe wrong) that OP catches aggressively everything - and this is of course invalid approach (that makes debugging harder), and I did explain why. -- Bart -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
