This general design principle does not mean to never change anything, but to consciously create a paradigm where the same things have the same names and are accessed in the same way as much as possible. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Java TimerTask Implementation Pattern
When implementing a TimerTask class, there are a couple of things to remember. Continue reading
Simple Rule for Exception
If you want a program that runs reliably, then there is a simple rule to follow about exception handling. It is so simple, it can be stated in a single sentence: if a method does not accomplish what it is supposed to do, it must throw an exception. Continue reading
Poor Exception Handling Examples
Having just written about JSON error messages and exceptions, I did a small survey to see what others were doing, and I saw some of the most egregious examples of poor coding. Sloppy exception handling makes programs that behave bad when the network runs into problems, and causes no end of suffering. Here are some poor examples and why they are bad. Continue reading
Ultimate Java Exception Class
This is the third in a series about translatable exceptions (see Translatable Error Messages). This post is about the class JSONException which contains the required features. Continue reading
Exception Receiving
When you make a web service call, you want to report the problem to the user save as you do for any other part of the program, and that is through an exception object. This post talks about converting the JSON received back into an exception object so that it can be reported properly. This is the fourth post in a series about translatable errors for REST web services. Continue reading
Variable Arguments for Messages
We need to construct an object which has a template and a set of parameter data values. Java offers a couple of ways to do this, and this post shows how the variable parameter mechanism works easily and conveniently for this purpose. Continue reading
JSON Translatable Error Messages
Second in a series on translatable exceptions, this discusses how an error message should be returned as JSON from a web-service API so that it the calling program can display the error in the right language for the user. Continue reading
Translatable Error Messages
This is the first of a series of posts, I want to go over some of the groundwork of what it takes to make exceptions localizable into other languages. Nothing new here, but just want to explain clearly the requirements of a localizable exception messages.