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form-error.r

REBOL[ File: %form-error.r Date: 20-Dec-2006 Title: {Trapping and displaying an error} Purpose: {Beginner's example for trapping errors.} Author: "Tim Johnson" email: %tim--johnsons-web--com NOTE: {See comments for some code illustrations} Library: [ level: 'Intermediate platform: 'all type: [Function how-to] domain: [debug testing] tested-under: "Linux, CGI" support: ["Tim Johnson" %tim--johnsons-web--com] license: none see-also: none ] ] form-error: func[{Compose a message representation of an error object} error[error!] "The error" markup[block! string! none!] {Use to make more readable. markup 1 & 4 'wrap' the message. markup 2 & 3 for 'near and 'where attributes respectively. All four elements of 'markup are optional} /local arg1 arg2 arg3 message format ][ error: disarm error ;; convert to object format: compose[(any[markup ["" "" "" ""]])] all[4 > length? format append format array/initial (4 - length? format) "" ] set [arg1 arg2 arg3][error/arg1 error/arg2 error/arg3] message: get in get in system/error error/type error/id if block? message[bind message 'arg1] message: reform reduce message if error/near [append message rejoin[format/2 " Near: " error/near]] if error/where [append message rejoin[format/3 " Where: " error/near]] rejoin[format/1 message format/4] ] ;;; Explanations: ;; 1) If you do not fully understand the 'magic' of setting arg2 and arg3 ;; it would be useful to probe system/error. The 3 arguments are used ;; to extract a human-readable message from the system/error object ;; look for :arg1, :arg2, :arg3 etc. ;; 2) Although I was an experienced 'C' programmer when I started using rebol, ;; thinking in 'C'-style imperative logic could be an obstacle. ;; EXAMPLE: Convert a data-type - the C programmer might want to do the following: ;; if not markup[format: ["" "" "" ""]] ;; put in default empty strings ;; if string? markup[format: reduce[markup]] ;; convert 'markup to a block ;; Thinking about this in more 'rebol-esque' terms, we actually use: ;; format: compose[(any[markup ["" "" "" ""]])] ;; combining the two ;; ;; lines above and using 'any instead of 'if ;; 3) If 'markup doesn't have the necessary 4 strings, the imperative approach ;; would be something like this: ;; if (length? markup) < 4[loop 4 - (length? markup)[append markup ""]] ;; ;; filling in the block with empty strings, and reallocating memory in each ;; ;; loop ;; all[4 > length? format ;; append format array/initial (4 - length? format) "" ;; ] ;; HINT: in your console, >> help all ;; ;; >> help array ;; Usage: combine with the 'try construct, checking for an error. ;; Example in comments. Think of a python ;; try: ;; except: ;; finally: comment{ either error? res: try[ ;; attempted code follows do-some-code do-some-more-code 1 / 0 ;; YIKES! Don't touch me there! ][ ;; 'res is an error and we catch it here print "<h3>Error executing code. Explanation follows:</h3>" print form-error res ["<h3>" "<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;" "<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;" "</h3>"] ][ ;; Finish up here. in python this would be the finally section finish-code ] }
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