Re: [RFC] Gnome2::GConf error handling

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Emmanuele Bassi said:

> * 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.

> * 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.
}

if an error happens while in an eval you can catch and handle it. if it
happens without the eval context the app will just die. (with obvious
exceptions with Gtk2 callbacks)

-rm