Peter, Clint, Thanks. One last question: so in the event handler do I have any access to the exception that was raised (for trace purposes)? Dan
--- In [email protected], "Peter Farland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, the requests made by HTTPService are asynchronous... so you have > to wait for events to be dispatched some time later. Any errors that > occur prior to actually sending the request are typically caught and > dispatched as fault events too so there shouldn't be a need for a > try/catch. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Clint Tredway > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] basic exception handling > > > > there is a fault attribute of the HTTPService tag that you can set to a > function. that will catch any faults from the call. > > > On 2/7/07, dantmcgowan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > All, > When I am catching exceptions the catch seems to be ignored and > the > actionscript error window pops up. For example if I have a > simple > service like this: > > <mx:HTTPService > id="simpleService" > url="http://example.com/someservice/ > <http://example.com/someservice/> " > useProxy="false" > method="GET"> > > And I have a try catch block like this with one statement > inside. If I > comment out this statement no errors...so I know this statement > is > causing the error: > > try { > simpleService.send(); > } > catch(errObject:Error) { > trace("<Error> "+errObject.message); > } > > The scenarios that throw errors (for example TypeError: Error > #1034) > opens the actionscript error window and the trace does not > appear. > What do I need to be doing so the exception is consumed in the > catch > and no error window? Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > > > > -- > http://indeegrumpee.spaces.live.com/ > <http://indeegrumpee.spaces.live.com/> >
