Re: [Tiki-devel] Is this why Exceptions are mostly dead in tiki? And they must be changed with Trowable?

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On 2021-07-20 00:13, aris002 via TikiWiki-devel wrote:
> Thanks Marc,
> 
> 1. Glitch is a very good thing but I guess will it work during tiki
> installation proccess? About which I am worried mostly at the moment.


Ah, good point.

As of now, GlitchTip is just post-install.



> 2. And to send login data to somewhere  maybe is not the best idea?

Indeed. GlitchTip is Open Source, so devs can self-host:
https://glitchtip.com/documentation/install


> 3. And will it work as it is with the Exception keyword at all because
> documentiontion says:
> 


I don't know.

PHP5 is no longer needed, but it would be nice to have a nice error 
message if someone tries.

Best regards,

Marc

> catch (Exception $e)
> 
> {
>    // Executed only in PHP 5, will not be reached in PHP 7
> }
> 
> PHP: Errors in PHP 7 - Manual [1]
> 
> PHP: ERRORS IN PHP 7 - MANUAL
> 
> Regards,
> Aris
> 
>  On Monday, 19 July 2021, 23:59:37 EEST, Marc Laporte
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Aris,
> 
> Not an answer to your question, but here is some information related
> to error tracking.
> 
> Here is a new feature in Tiki23:
> * https://dev.tiki.org/GlitchTip
> * https://doc.tiki.org/GlitchTip
> 
> We'll centralize error messages from various community sites, and this
> will make it easier to resolve.
> 
> We can imagine in the future that each error message shown to end
> users would have a unique ID, and this will help provide actionable
> information to developers to solve the problems at the source.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marc
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Tiki developers
> [email protected] said
> 
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Is this why Exceptions are mostly dead in tiki? And they must be
> changed with
>> Trowable?
>> 
>> Writing Code to Support PHP 5.x and 7 Exceptions
>> To catch any exception in PHP 5.x and 7 with the same code, multiple
> catch
>> blocks can be used, catching  Throwable  first, then  Exception .
> Once PHP
>> 5.x support is no longer needed, the block catching  Exception  can
> be
>> removed.
>> try { // Code that may throw an Exception or Error. } catch (
> Throwable $t )
>> { // Executed only in PHP 7, will not match in PHP 5.x } catch (
> Exception $e
>> ) { // Executed only in PHP 5.x, will not be reached in PHP 7 }
>> Writing catch-all block compatible with both PHP 5.x and 7
>> Unfortunately, type declarations on functions that handle exceptions
> are not
>> as easy to fix. If  Exception  is used as a type declaration on a
> function
>> parameter, the type declaration will need to be removed if the
> function could
>> be called with an instance of  Error . When PHP 5.x support is not
> required,
>> the type declaration can be restored as  Throwable .
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Aris
> 
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