From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2007-11-09T07:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Best practises for exception handling

On Nov 8, 2007 2:04 PM, Alex Dunae <alex@dunae.ca> wrote:
> I'm write a wrapper for a web service and am wondering about the best
> way to handle exceptions.
>
> The main method in the wrapper sends either a HEAD or GET request to a
> web server using Net::HTTP.
>
> Should I catch any exceptions thrown by Net::HTTP and then throw back
> my own exception, or should I leave the exceptions totally un-handled?
>
> Alex
>
>
>

I would raise a new error that's on the same level of abstraction as
the calling code.

Pat