oops, missed a line:
jQuery.oldfind = jQuery.find;
jQuery.find = function(t,con){
var f = jQuery.oldfind(t,con);
if (f.length == 0) throw('Empty query');
return f;
}
On Nov 5, 5:10 pm, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Brian, try this:
>
> jQuery.oldfind = jQuery.find;
> jQuery.find = function(t,con){
> var f = jQuery.oldfind(t,con);
> if (f.length == 0) throw('Empty query');
>
> }
>
> cheers,
> - ricardo
>
> On Nov 5, 1:08 pm, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > It's not a failure to run a query and find nothing - that's a
> > > perfectly valid use case.
>
> > I understand where you are coming from on the querying side, but
> > shouldn't calling a method on an empty object fail? How can I fade
> > in...nothing?
>
> > I'm going to still think of this as a huge design flaw.
>
> > There needs to be a way to specify that it should fail on empty
> > results. /s for strict or whatever.
>
> > This post is for 1) bitching purposes and 2) indexing purposes so that
> > future searchers find definitive proof that jquery fails silently and
> > that this is not considered a bug, despite obvious appearances.
