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Hi

I have posted about this before but I am still looking at it.

Say I have a fex that has a bug in it.

like this

-*with_bug.fex
-GOTO MISSING_LABEL;

that's it. there is no missing_label so it throws
(FOC305) SPECIFIED LABEL NOT FOUND: MISSING_LABEL

OK that's fine.

Now say I have a second fex that contains this line in it.

-INCLUDE with_bug.fex
-TYPE whatever
-TYPE &FOCERRNUM
When I run this I get
(FOC305) SPECIFIED LABEL NOT FOUND: MISSING_LABEL

I do not get the focerrnum or the "whatever" text. The processing stops in the included file and that is all I am out of luck.

Is there any way to trap that error? Like on error resume next kind of thing. try .. catch?

Note: I am not looking for advice as to how to avoid the error. I need to call an external fex (which is outside of my control) and the fex could have an error in it.

If there is an error in it then I want to branch somewhere and do a clean display for the user with a nice error message.

How can I trap that error inside the calling fex?

Thanks

Jodye

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As far as I know, only non-Dialogue Manager errors can be tested for with &FOCERRNUM, which is too bad.


I hope someone has better news.


Francis


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Counterexample:

-SET &ECHO=ON;
-SET &FOCERRNUM=-1;
TABLE FILE NONESUCH
LIST *
END
-RUN
-? &FOCERRNUM

shows
&FOCERRNUM = 205
 
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quote:
SET &ECHO=ON;
-SET &FOCERRNUM=-1;
TABLE FILE NONESUCH
LIST *
END
-RUN
-? &FOCERRNUM


Is this trapping a Dialogue manager error?

When I run the code, I get:
-SET &FOCERRNUM=-1;
 TABLE FILE NONESUCH
 LIST *
 END
 -RUN
 0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE      3  IN PROCEDURE ssearch_drill_holdings
 (FOC205) THE DESCRIPTION CANNOT BE FOUND FOR FILE NAMED: NONESUCH
 BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND
 CURRENTLY DEFINED & VARIABLES STARTING WITH 'FOCERRNUM':
 &FOCERRNUM    = 0
 -? &FOCERRNUM


Francis


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Looks like in new feature in 8.x

I can't see why &FOCERRNUM shouldn't run along the lines of &LINES, making attributes of the outcome of FOCUS COMMANDs accessible for decisionmaking in Dialog Manager.
 
Posts: 1925 | Location: NYC | In FOCUS since 1983 | Registered: January 11, 2005Report This Post
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Like Francis says... the problem is that it seems to be impossible to catch a DM error. Processing just halts.

assume CAUSE_ERROR is not in the fex....

-GOTO CAUSE_ERROR
-TYPE AAA

(FOC305) SPECIFIED LABEL NOT FOUND: CAUSE_ERROR

I do not get the AAA. There is no way to handle that error as far as I can see.

Thanks

Jodye


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i'm thinking that some focerrnums are ebola, and some are just the flu.
if you have no control over the included fex, and it has a fatal error, its going to flat die on you. period.
it seems that GOTO labelname is going to be fatal if that labelname doesn't exist, whereas TABLE FILE fantasyfile appears to be nonfatal, as it offers the option 'BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND'




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Yes Susannah. I think I am just out of luck when it comes to syntax errors. There is no way to get around them.

thanks


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