[hibernate-dev] Introducing specialized subtypes of SearchException

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 13 Jun 2012, at 20:24, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Well I think a great rule is the test suite.  We actually have tests in 
> ORM that inspect the exception message string to perform assertions.  
> If you need the distinction for the test suite, its a good bet users 
> might too ;)

Sounds like a good rule.

> On Wed 13 Jun 2012 12:02:45 PM CDT, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>> Year, it was never a rule in search. It's just that we never had a need. At least I never had a need. I am against artificial exception hierarchies for the sake of separation but if there is a use case, let's go :)
>> 
>> On 13 juin 2012, at 15:26, Steve Ebersole wrote:
>> 
>>> I think thats a bad rule in general ;)
>>> 
>>> Lack of specific exception types in ORM has been an issue quite a few
>>> times.
>>> 
>>> On Wed 13 Jun 2012 08:15:48 AM CDT, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>> Ok, only for this specific case I created:
>>>> https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HSEARCH-1161
>>>> 
>>>> So we won't have a single exception any more, I guess more will come
>>>> as needed now that the "single type exception" rule is broken.
>>>> 
>>>> Sanne
>>>> 
>>>> On 13 June 2012 13:57, Hardy Ferentschik<hardy at hibernate.org>   wrote:
>>>>> +1 and as Emmanuel is saying we should take it as it comes
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> +1 on a case by case basis. That can definitely help here.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 13 juin 2012, at 14:05, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm wondering if we should specialize SearchException in some cases to
>>>>>>> make it easier for business logic to react correctly, like in the case
>>>>>>> of:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831569#c2
>>>>>>> 
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