Re: How to catch exceptions, second try...

On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 01:18  PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> I posted this on the 14th, but saw no responses.  I'm reposting on the 
> hunch
> that everyone was distracted...
>
> I have a Mason component which uses Frontier::Client to make an 
> XML-RPC call
> to a remote method which can raise an exception (a fault in XML-RPC
> parlance).  When the fault information is detected by 
> Frontier::Client, it
> obligingly calls die() with information about the error.
>
> In my code I tried to catch the exception like so:
>
>     eval {
>         $result = $m->comp("/.../.../component", "remote method", a1, 
> ...);
>     };
>     if ($@) {
>         blah blah blah;
>     }
>
> Problem is, my code is never executed.  The Mason error handler always 
> gets
> called.  What am I missing?

Perhaps you just need to set error_mode to 'fatal' ?

  http://www.masonhq.com/docs/manual/Params.html#error_mode

 -Ken



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