cSDHLibraryException Class Reference

Base class for exceptions in the SDHLibrary-CPP. More...

#include <sdhexception.h>

Inheritance diagram for cSDHLibraryException:

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Public Member Functions
	cSDHLibraryException (char const *_type, cMsg const &_msg)
virtual const char *	what () const throw ()
Protected Attributes
cMsg	msg
	The message object.

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Detailed Description

Base class for exceptions in the SDHLibrary-CPP.

At construction time a cMsg object is stored in the msg member of the cSDHLibraryException object. The cMsg object should contain a string wich further describes the actual cause of the exception thrown. The string in the cMsg object can be queried with the overloaded what() member function, just like in the std::exception class.

See the verbose description of the constructor SDH::cSDHLibraryException::cSDHLibraryException() for examplary use.

Definition at line 132 of file sdhexception.h.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

cSDHLibraryException::cSDHLibraryException	(	char const *	_type,
		cMsg const &	_msg
	)

Constructor of sdh exception base class.

Parameters:

	_type	- the type name of the exception. By convention this is the class name of the exception
	_msg	- a reference to a cMsg object that further describes the exception.

Remarks:

• The _type parameter is mainly usefull in derived classes
• The _msg given as parameter is copied to the msg member. Thus the given _msg object can be an anonymous object, like in:

      ...
      if ( v > v_max )
        throw new cSDHLibraryException( "cSDHLibraryException", cMsg( "Failed since v is invalid (v=%d > %d=v_max)", v, v_max ) );

• But exceptions of the base will hardly ever be thrown. Instead objects of derived, more specific classes will be thrown. This looks like:

        // Derived exception class for more specific exceptions:
        class cDerivedException : public cSDHLibraryException
        {
        public:
          cDerivedException( cMsg const & _msg )
            : cSDHLibraryException( "cDerivedException", _msg )
          {}
        }
        // (Yes that is really all that must be done here!)
  
        ...
  
        try
        {
          ...
          if ( v > v_max )
            throw new cDerivedException( cMsg( "Failed since v is invalid (v=%d > %d=v_max)", v, v_max ) );
          ...
        }
        catch ( cDerivedException *e )
        {
          cerr << "Caught exception " << e->what() << "\n";
          // handle exception
          ...
  
          // finally delete the caught exception
          delete e;
        }
  

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Member Function Documentation

virtual const char* cSDHLibraryException::what

(

)

const throw () [virtual]

Return the msg member

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Member Data Documentation

cMsg cSDHLibraryException::msg [protected]

The message object.

Definition at line 137 of file sdhexception.h.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• sdhexception.h