Point taken. If the method continues to throw some type of exception,
existing code should not break. Let's go for it.
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dion@multitask.com.au [mailto:dion@multitask.com.au]
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:28 PM
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> I can speak for Maven, since it's me using it :)
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> If the method currently throws Exception, and we change it to
> IOException
> for example, how does that break anyone?
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> We have not released. I would say do it, although I know I
> might regret not deprecating somehow.
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> Gump may have something to say about this, as there are
> currently dependencies from: commons-xo
> jakarta-turbine-3
> jakarta-turbine-maven
> jakarta-turbine-stratum
> jakarta-turbine-torque
> vindico
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> I can speak for Vindico +1, but we should talk to the Turbine people.
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> +1 if we can keep Gump happy.
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> Scott
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@generationjava.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:33 AM
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> > Subject: Re: [io] throws Exception?
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> > Ugh :) +1 for removing them from me.
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> > Scott?
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 dion@multitask.com.au wrote:
> >
> > > The APIs in [io] most declare 'throws Exception'. This just
> > makes it
> > > plain hard to debug errors such as NullPointers etc and
> > makes the API
> > > hard to use in an application.
> > >
> > > I'd like to change the API so that they declare they throw
> > the actual
> > > exceptions that occur in the code?
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a problem with it?
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