Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> --On 10 November 2007 14:10 -0500 Chris Hyzer <> 
> wrote:
> > Question 2: What is the standard for exception handling?  Can we rethrow
> > this sql exception, it could be wrapped in a RuntimeException or
> > subclass, (and maybe look for other cases of this if it is not the
> > standard)?  I think it is good when things don't work that it is brought
> > to the attention of users.  If there's a reason to not rethrow, then at
> > least can we log as error?
>
> This could definitely be improved. I'm not sure we have a standard, 
> other than in the API there are quite a few specific exceptions and 
> there is no reason for the Subject API to have some.
>
> I'm afraid to say that the UI doesn't really have any Exception handling 
> or logging strategy - something which I ought to change.

Although it would be good to have some uniformity for expressed log 
levels across the integrated i2mi components, I don't know that it's 
necessary to pass exceptions around among them. Perhaps a review of 
as-packaged log4j.properties files would be in order instead? That 
should allow a given integration of i2mi components to create 
appropriate log files. In fact, perhaps a single log4j.properties file 
that captures an agreed-upon log level for each component should 
accompany each distribution.

Tom