Exceptions in Ice v3.2

[borax00]

Hi,

I really like the fact that Ice v3.2 exceptions derive from std::exception -- in a bunch of places I have catch-all-and-generate-error-message blocks, and the extra catch block for Ice::Exception makes it ugly.

Unfortunately I think I still need the extra block to generate meaningful error messages. Compare the following:

(a)

catch ( Ice::Exception &e ) {
cout << e << endl;
}

(b)

catch ( std::Exception &e ) {
cout << e.what() << endl;
}

(a) produces:
Network.cpp:662: Ice::ConnectionRefusedException:
connection refused: Connection refused

while (b) produces:
N3Ice26ConnectionRefusedExceptionE


What's going on here? Am I missing something?


Thanks,

Alex

[bernard]

Unfortunately that's a bug. Ice exceptions should (but do not) override std::exception::what().

Cheers,
Bernard

[michi]

Thanks for the bug report! We've fixed this but, because the change is binary incompatible, it will become available only with the next major release.

Cheers,

Michi.