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Christopher Tubbs commented on THRIFT-1805:
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Contrary to the description and intent of this issue, it seems that this breaks 
things for users expecting consistent behavior with 0.9.0 (and 0.6.0 and 
earlier), and actually causes thrift to hide exception information from the 
client.

The expected behavior was that unknown server-side errors would result in a 
TApplicationException.INTERNAL_ERROR, but now it just closes the connection and 
the client sees a network exception (TTransportException) instead, which a 
reasonable client might just conclude was a temporary network hiccup and retry.

> Thrift should not swallow ALL exceptions
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-1805
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1805
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Java - Compiler, Java - Library
>    Affects Versions: 0.9
>            Reporter: Diwaker Gupta
>            Assignee: Diwaker Gupta
>         Attachments: THRIFT-1805.patch
>
>
> In Thrift 0.8.0, Thrift generated Java code did not swallow application 
> exceptions. As a result of THRIFT-1658, this behavior changed in 0.9.0 and 
> now the generated code swallows ALL application exceptions (via 
> ProcessFunction). Apparently this was the behavior in Thrift 0.6.0 and while 
> I see the rationale, it is breaking our applications.
> Our code relies on the fact that exceptions can propagate outside of Thrift 
> for certain things (e.g., to aggressively drop connections for clients that 
> send invalid/malformed requests). ProcessFunction makes it near impossible to 
> do this -- not only does it swallow the exception, it also loses all 
> information about the original exception and just writes out a generic 
> TApplicationException.
> IMO ProcessFunction should only catch TException. If the application code 
> wants to use other exceptions for some reason (in particular, Errors and 
> RuntimeExceptions), Thrift shouldn't prevent that.



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