Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] Error-handling with filters

From: Paul Giaccone (paulg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-19 12:49:54

Paul Giaccone wrote:

>How can you deal with a corrupt file when using filters?
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>This works fine if the file is as is required, but if it is corrupted in 
>any way, the program either hangs or crashes.
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>How should this be handled?  I haven't seen anything about it in the 
>documentation.  I imagine I should throw an exception instead of 
>returning 0 (perhaps an iostreams exception?).  Given that the crash is 
>the bzip2 (bzip2 being the first operation done when deserialising the 
>file), where would I put the associated catch block?
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It's OK, I think I've found what I need in the docs to write an 
exception: section 3.10 of http://boost.org/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html