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Return error status to caller
Hi - Thanks for your reply. I'm a new guy on the team, so I can't do much flogging. Yes, I agree that exceptions are the way to go. But the main reason why a few people on the team don't want exceptions is because of getAllObjects(). We have 1000+ objects to return. If a few are bad, we... -
Return error status to caller
Hello - What's a good way to return an error status to the caller of a utility method? I have a class that stores and retrieves objects. During the operations, several errors can occur. The team prefers that these methods do not throw exceptions, but instead return error codes somehow. Here's...
