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Hoa\Exception

This library allows to use advanced exceptions. It provides generic exceptions (that are sent over the hoa://Event/Exception event channel), idle exceptions (that are not sent over an event channel), uncaught exception handlers, errors to exceptions handler and group of exceptions (with transactions).

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Installation

With Composer, to include this library into your dependencies, you need to require hoa/exception:

$ composer require hoa/exception '~2.0'

For more installation procedures, please read the Source page.

Testing

Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:

$ composer install

Then, to run all the test suites:

$ vendor/bin/hoa test:run

For more information, please read the contributor guide.

Quick usage

We propose a quick overview of how to use generic exceptions, how to listen all thrown exceptions through events and how to use group of exceptions.

Generic exceptions

An exception is constitued of:

• A message,
• A code (optional),
• A list of arguments for the message (à la printf, optional),
• A previous exception (optional).

Thus, the following example builds an exception:

$exception = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Hello %s!', 0, 'world');

The exception message will be: Hello world!. The “raise” message (with all information, not only the message) is:

{main}: (0) Hello world!
in … at line ….

Previous exceptions are shown too, for instance:

$previous  = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Hello previous.');
$exception = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Hello %s!', 0, 'world', $previous);

echo $exception->raise(true);

/**
 * Will output:
 *     {main}: (0) Hello world!
 *     in … at line ….
 *     
 *         ⬇
 *     
 *     Nested exception (Hoa\Exception\Exception):
 *     {main}: (0) Hello previous.
 *     in … at line ….
 */

Listen exceptions through events

Most exceptions in Hoa extend Hoa\Exception\Exception, which fire themselves on the hoa://Event/Exception event channel (please, see the Hoa\Event library). Consequently, we can listen for all exceptions that are thrown in the application by writing:

Hoa\Event\Event::getEvent('hoa://Event/Exception')->attach(
    function (Hoa\Event\Bucket $bucket) {
        $exception = $bucket->getData();
        // …
    }
);

Only the Hoa\Exception\Idle exceptions are not fired on the channel event.

Group and transactions

Groups of exceptions are represented by the Hoa\Exception\Group. A group is an exception that contains one or many exceptions. A transactional API is provided to add more exceptions in the group with the following methods:

• beginTransaction to start a transaction,
• rollbackTransaction to remove all newly added exceptions since beginTransaction call,
• commitTransaction to merge all newly added exceptions in the previous transaction,
• hasUncommittedExceptions to check whether they are pending exceptions or not.

For instance, if an exceptional behavior is due to several reasons, a group of exceptions can be thrown instead of one exception. Group can be nested too, which is useful to represent a tree of exceptions. Thus:

// A group of exceptions.
$group           = new Hoa\Exception\Group('Failed because of several reasons.');
$group['first']  = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('First reason');
$group['second'] = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Second reason');

// Can nest another group.
$group['third']           = new Hoa\Exception\Group('Third reason');
$group['third']['fourth'] = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Fourth reason');

echo $group->raise(true);

/**
 * Will output:
 *     {main}: (0) Failed because of several reasons.
 *     in … at line ….
 *     
 *     Contains the following exceptions:
 *     
 *       • {main}: (0) First reason
 *         in … at line ….
 *     
 *       • {main}: (0) Second reason
 *         in … at line ….
 *     
 *       • {main}: (0) Third reason
 *         in … at line ….
 *         
 *         Contains the following exceptions:
 *         
 *           • {main}: (0) Fourth reason
 *             in … at line ….
 */

The following example uses a transaction to add new exceptions in the group:

$group   = new Hoa\Exception\Group('Failed because of several reasons.');
$group[] = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Always present.');

$group->beginTransaction();

$group[] = new Hoa\Exception\Exception('Might be present.');

if (true === $condition) {
    $group->commitTransaction();
} else {
    $group->rollbackTransaction();
}

Documentation

The hack book of Hoa\Exception contains detailed information about how to use this library and how it works.

To generate the documentation locally, execute the following commands:

$ composer require --dev hoa/devtools
$ vendor/bin/hoa devtools:documentation --open

More documentation can be found on the project's website: hoa-project.net.

Getting help

There are mainly two ways to get help:

• On the #hoaproject IRC channel,
• On the forum at users.hoa-project.net.

Contribution

Do you want to contribute? Thanks! A detailed contributor guide explains everything you need to know.

License

Hoa is under the New BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Please, see LICENSE for details.