Hi,
I noticed an error message that is not as helpful as it could be:
st> Date readFrom: (ReadStream on: '')
Object: nil error: did not understand #isAlphaNumeric
MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #isAlphaNumeric
(SysExcept.st:1407)
Date class>>readFrom: (Date.st:258)
UndefinedObject>>executeStatements (a String:1)
Who (class, not person ;-) is responsible here?
Should Date class>>readFrom: return nil when passed an empty stream?
Could this method maybe raise a better suited exception, like
SystemException.InvalidArgument?
Should the sender of the message check for an empty backing of the
ReadStream?
I encountered this problem while inspecting the result of a query:
An instance of DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTable
name: 'users'
attributes: nil
connection: a PGConnection
columns: nil
columnsArray: (DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(id integer(0) not
null) DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(created_at timestamp without time
zone(0) not null) DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(updated_at timestamp
without time zone(0)) DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(deleted_at
timestamp without time zone(0))
DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(username character varying(50) not
null) DBI.PostgreSQL.PGTableColumnInfo(password character varying(50)
not null) )
contents: [
Object: nil error: did not understand #isAlphaNumeric
MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #isAlphaNumeric
(SysExcept.st:1407)
DateTime class(Date class)>>readFrom: (Date.st:258)
DateTime class>>readFrom: (AnsiDates.st:114)
DBI.PostgreSQL.PGColumnInfo class>>convertDateTime:
(DBD-PostgreSQL.star#VFS.ZipFile/ColumnInfo.st:78)
So where should this be fixed? In Date and DateTime or in
DBI.PostgreSQL.PGColumnInfo?
Curious,
s.
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