Re: [RFC] Gnome2::GConf error handling

[Emmanuele Bassi <bassi-e libero it>]

* Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>:

> > * Situation in the Perl binding
> > ...
> > using croak(); it is completely transparent from the Perl programmer's
> > ...
> 
> you may already know and be doing this, but you want to use gperl_croak_error
> rather than the perlapi croak. mainly for memory allocation reasons.

Yep, I'm already doing this.

> > * Possible improvements
> > ...
> > So, I'd like to hear every comment you might have, and your alternative
> > solutions, if any, about this.
> >
> 
> (in my opinion) the perlish way of doing this would be:
> 
> my $client = Gnome2::GConf::Client->get_default;
> my $str;
> eval { $str = $client->get_string("/test/app/key"); 1 };
> if( $@ )
> {
> #    handle the error, ignore it, die etc.
> }

This is the way things are working right now.

I could live without ever touching or extending error handling, but I
thought that using some of the facilities GConf already offers to the
programmer could be a good thing...

Regards,
 Emmanuele.

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