Throw more exceptions and log less errors
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Key: VELOCITY-467
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-467
Project: Velocity
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Source
Affects Versions: 1.5 beta1
Reporter: Will Glass-Husain
Priority: Minor
Now that Velocity application exceptions are based on RuntimeException, we have
more opportunity to use exceptions to signal application level problems. I'm
particularly concerned about initialization problems that are logged and may be
missed. We need to review all logged error messages and see if it would be
more appropriate to throw an exception instead. Some of these places we may
need to leave as is for backwards compatibility reasons. (e.g. macro in the
global macro library doesn't parse properly).
Llewellyn Falco made a good case for this on the dev list recently:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15067.html
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I still would like to put in my vote that sending error's to the log is an
incredibly BAD idea.
If something is not working, it should be LOUDLY shown as an exception.
If it is working I don't really need a log.
The (velocity) log should be there for velocity developers (those programming
the actual velocity code) not users.
I don't ever care to see tomcat's log, I care to see the things I log while in
tomcat.
Most of all, many many many people do not check the log at all, let alone
frequently.
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