Any news on this? I myself was confused with the way Prototype seems to be swallowing exceptions without giving the developer a clue about it.
As Glenn, I really feel that exceptions thrown from an ajax request should somehow be propagated upwards if no explicit onException (analogous to a catch in my mind) is provided. However, something tells me that the reason this is not done is due to the way ajax requests work. After an ajax request is sent, the js interpreter will reach the end of any global try block long before the ajax response returns. Hence, it does not make sense to propagate any exceptions upwards in the call stack as suggested; when the function provided via onComplete is executed there will be no sub routines in the call stack. Maybe this is the reason why no exceptions are thrown: you cannot possible wrap the onComplete function with a global try/catch block as it is called out of "normal" context. No matter what, I'd like to hear a clarification from someone who understands this better than I do :) On May 15, 10:06 pm, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:47 AM, T.J. Crowder <t...@crowdersoftware.com> > wrote: > > I don't see any point in continuing this. You feel quite strongly > > about this and I'm unlikely to change your mind. I feel less strongly > > about it, but you're not likely to change my mind either -- not that > > it matters either way, as neither of us is a Core developer. :-) I > > _do_ see your point about the absense of an onException handler being > > somewhat analagous to the absense of a catch block. > > If you're not going to explain your opinion at all, then no, there's > no point in continuing this with you. You havn't offered a single > reason for why the errors should not be raised if no exception > handlers are set. Don't just assert your disagreement and then refuse > to explain it. > > -- > Glenn Maynard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
