[Biojava-dev] Sequence interface - exceptions

[Richard Holland]

I often wonder what the best way of handling multiple possible internal exceptions is - particularly in cases like this when you've got HTTP and IO and many other types of exceptions which could be thrown.

SequenceException maybe if there's something wrong with the sequence itself - but possibly otherwise a form of IOException may be more appropriate? Trouble is that then almost every BioJava3 method would throw it, as all of them potentially have IO exposure.

I don't know. There must be experts on this in the list who can help!

cheers,
Richard


On 19 Jul 2010, at 14:49, jake at researchtogether.com wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> I've been drawing up a design for the work I have done on the NCBI SequenceReader and I've talked through some things with Scooter which I have put on the wiki at: http://www.biojava.org/wiki/BioJava3_NCBISequenceReader_Design#Design_Overview
> 
> One thing I would like to throw open for discussion is the possibility of changing the Sequence interface so that the methods can throw a new exception - SequenceException.
> 
> Any opinions? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jake
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