[Boost-users] [boost.test] How to register custom exception for auto test?

Subject: [Boost-users] [boost.test] How to register custom exception for auto test?
From: Jörg Becker (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-06 03:36:17

Hi,

I'm using the test library of boost 1.49.0 for my unit tests. It works fine so 
fare, but if my program throws an error, I get the default error message 
unknown location(0): fatal error in "excption1_test": unknown type,
witch hides the original error message.

I tried to register an error translator, but without success. Here is what I 
tried (modified test/test/custom_exception_test.cpp to use auto test with 
global fixture):

#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE "boost test custom_exception_test"

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
#include <boost/test/unit_test_monitor.hpp>

using namespace boost::unit_test;

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE( custom_exception_testsuite )

struct my_exception1 {
  explicit    my_exception1( int res_code ) : m_res_code( res_code ) {}
  int         m_res_code;
};

void throw_my_exception1() {
  throw my_exception1( 12 );
}

void my_exception1_translator( my_exception1 ) {
  BOOST_TEST_MESSAGE( "Caught my_exception1" );
}

class my_config {
public:
  my_config () {
    unit_test_monitor.register_exception_translator<my_exception1>( 
&my_exception1_translator );
  }
};

BOOST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE( my_config )

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( excption1_test ) {
  throw_my_exception1();
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()

Can anybody tell me what I'm missing?

Thanks,
Jörg