On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:02:43 PM UTC-7, a1 wrote: > > >> >>> 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. >
That should have been phrased as a question. Since you said "Why?" I wrongly assumed you were expressing doubt. If you do think logcat logs are helpful, then we don't have to disagree on anything. > > >> 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. > It was a phrased as a thought question, not a quote. > > >> 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 didn't say that. You asked "How can you fix IOException?" I was posing some possible answers, but never mind, I guess that was rhetorical. Nathan -- -- 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.

