On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Benjamin Schneider wrote:
I am currently writing a node js library. Now I came up with the question
what would be the best approach to indicate a usage error by the programmer.
For example if I got the following function in my public API:
function doSomething(aNumber) {
// ...
}
and I need to make sure that aNumber actually is a number, what way of error
handling should I go if the API user passes a parameter that is not.
By convetion functions in node should return an Error object if an error
occurs. But in my case this is no error the programmer should catch.
So my question is what would be the most appropriate way to maybe simply
"end" the program with an error message, telling the programmer that he did
not use my API in the correct way.
I am currently writing a node js library. Now I came up with the question
what would be the best approach to indicate a usage error by the programmer.
For example if I got the following function in my public API:
function doSomething(aNumber) {
// ...
}
and I need to make sure that aNumber actually is a number, what way of error
handling should I go if the API user passes a parameter that is not.
By convetion functions in node should return an Error object if an error
occurs. But in my case this is no error the programmer should catch.
So my question is what would be the most appropriate way to maybe simply
"end" the program with an error message, telling the programmer that he did
not use my API in the correct way.
error and emit an error event when it's a run-time error (like a
network outage).
In your example, you'd throw a TypeError because the programmer forgot
to check her inputs.
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