On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David Graham wrote:
> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:25:19 -0700 > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Standard Actions Sending Errors > > Is it appropriate for the standard actions to call response.sendError(... or > would it be better for them to throw various types of Exceptions? It seems > like it would be more flexible to throw exceptions now that we have > declarative exception handling. This would allow the client programmer to > determine what to do with the exception, which might include sending an > error code to the user. > For 1.1, it makes sense to me that we declare a couple of specific exceptions that can then be caught and managed using the exception mapping technology. > I came across this issue while looking at the different ways > LookupDispatchAction and DispatchAction handle errors. > > Would it be backwards incompatible to change what the actions do when they > encounter an error? > I suspect that the current behavior w.r.t. errors is so unusable that anyone concerned about it has already subclassed the thing anyway. +1 for defining appropriate exceptions that can be thrown for this use case. > Thanks, > Dave Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
