Design Questions about static factory classes
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From: Tom Anderson on 27 May 2010 06:27 On Wed, 26 May 2010, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Arne Vajh?j wrote: >> On 26-05-2010 14:54, Rhino wrote: >>> Arne Vajh?j<arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in >>> news:4bfc7690$0$278$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk: >>> >>>> On 25-05-2010 12:02, Rhino wrote: >>>>> Arne Vajh?j<arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in >>>>> >>>>>> In most cases I don't think the exception text would >>>>>> tell the end user anything. >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course there are cases where the message text from the >>>>>> exception can be used in the end user error text. Just don't >>>>>> display class names, stack traces etc.. >>>>> >>>>> I don't log any of this and certainly don't show the user anything >>>>> like a stacktrace; just the message from the ResourceBundle. >>>> >>>> A possible alternative could be to throw a custom exception >>>> NotHexColorStringException and let the exception handling >>>> code read the localized text. >> >> I am just reluctant to rely too much on the message of an Exception. > > I'm particularly dubious about this in connection with > internationalization, because in some cases logging should be in the > developers' working language, but GUI display in a language chosen by > the end user. The same Exception might trigger either or both. Which is precisely the problem the optionally self-localising exception class i posted solves: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/d0a0eb4ea84f3983 tom -- Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid
From: Jim Janney on 27 May 2010 14:56
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling(a)hotmail.com> writes: > Lew wrote: >> Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>> And my guess is that Tom [sic] meant US English. >> >> Tom Anderson wrote: >>> Certainly not! en_GB is the canonical form, and en_US is merely a >>> popular but subordinate deviation. >> >> It has ever amazed me how well the Brits speak English. Awesome! > > Some of them even write it well, though rarely as well as the Irish. "The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man...." -- Jim Janney |