[erlang-questions] Distinguishing CORBA user and system exceptions

[Niclas Eklund]

Hello!

Not documented, but since you feel that such a function is usefull I've
added it; will be named orber:is_system_exception/1 and included in
the next release.

/Nick

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Dominic Williams wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a simple way of distinguishing between user and
> system CORBA exceptions ?
> 
> They both have the same form: {'EXCEPTION', E}, where E is a
> tuple (or record) whose first element is an atom.
> 
> Neither of the options I see seems very satisfactory:
> 
> - check whether the atom is one of the 36 or so system
>   exceptions;
> 
> - if the second element of the tuple looks like
>   "IDL:Foo/Bar:1.0", we have a user exception;
> 
> - if the exception is a 4-tuple whose last element is one of
>   'COMPLETED_NO', 'COMPLETED_YES', 'COMPLETED_MAYBE', we
>   (probably) have a system exception.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dominic Williams
> http://www.dominicwilliams.net
> 
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