Haohui Mai created HDFS-7207:
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Summary: libhdfs3 should not expose exceptions in public API
Key: HDFS-7207
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7207
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Haohui Mai
Priority: Blocker
There are three major disadvantages of exposing exceptions in the public API:
* Exposing exceptions in public APIs forces the downstream users to be compiled
with {{-fexceptions}}, which might be infeasible in many use cases.
* It forces other bindings to properly handle all C++ exceptions, which might
be infeasible especially when the binding is generated by tools like SWIG.
* It forces the downstream users to properly handle all C++ exceptions, which
can be cumbersome as in certain cases it will lead to undefined behavior (e.g.,
throwing an exception in a destructor is undefined.)
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