> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of James Carman > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 08:10 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions... > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Gary Gregory > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do we want the APIs to be quieter than using java.io.File for example? Or, > should exceptions be thrown from similar places? > > > > Definitely quieter than java.io.File! I *hate* that API for its > checked exceptions. > > > I am worried that we would make all APIs "quiet" (unchecked exceptions) as a > opposed to really thinking where exceptions should be checked or return an > Boolean error code (like File mkdir) > > > > I'm one of those folks who think the checked exceptions are evil, so I > am fine with getting rid of them entirely (think about how much nicer > your Hibernate code looks without the checked exceptions). Boolean > returns are fine I guess. No real strong opinion on that one.
So for VFS, you would prefer that all error handling be done with unchecked exceptions? Gary > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
