[erlang-questions] Exceptions and gen_server

[Anton Krasovsky]

You're right, your approach is better.

Regards,
anton

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:08 PM, David Mercer <dmercer@REDACTED> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason you want to throw the value rather than just
> erroring out?  If you need to throw it to a catch, I'd probably do as you
> say, but otherwise, I'd just do a match and let an error happen when it
> doesn't match.  Something like:
>
> a() ->
>        {ok, Value} = gen_server:call(..., a),
>        Value.
>
> Your handle_call looks OK to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED] On
>> Behalf Of Anton Krasovsky
>> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:57 AM
>> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> Subject: [erlang-questions] Exceptions and gen_server
>>
>> What would be the standard way of returning/throwing an exception in a
>> result to a gen_server:call?
>>
>> Would something like that be reasonable:
>>
>> a() ->
>> case gen_server:call(..., a) of
>>     {ok, Value} -> Value;
>>     {error, Error} -> throw({error, Error})
>> end
>>
>> and
>>
>> handle_call(a, ...) ->
>> case ... of
>>     {ok, Value} -> {reply, {ok, Value} , State};
>>     {error, Error} -> {reply, {error, Error} , State}
>> end
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anton
>>
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