[windup-dev] Reporting exceptions

[Jess Sightler]

Yes, I think if the exception came from malformed input files (invalid 
XML, invalid Java source, etc), then this is definitely what we should 
be doing.

On 08/10/2014 11:30 PM, Ondrej Zizka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some thoughts for the future:
>
> Windup is that kind of tool that should be robust and try to do
> something sensible even with malformed input.
> Currently, we throw an exception whenever something unexpected happen,
> and halt the app.
> I think we should rather continue processing other items, and then
> include even those failed in the report, saying why it failed.
>
> Therefore, we should capture the exceptions in the rules, at different
> levels, into collections if needed, then turn them into vertices, and
> link them to the item during whose processing the exception occured.
> Then add it to the report.
> Duplicated exceptions can be just summarized.
>
> This is how it worked in WindRide.
>
> Ondra
>
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