Re: Data validation

Chris Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> I'm implementing some IPDL methods on the parent side: if I do parameter
> validation and find that there is a parameter which is wrong, is there a
> method I can call to say "the child process is broken, please abort it"?
> 

You can return NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE from the message handler.  There's 
a lot of code in place to check for errors and non-OK return codes, but 
that code doesn't actually /do/ anything yet.  I think that topic is 
worth a fuller discussion.  Maybe at work week?

Cheers,
Chris
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