Le 02/12/10 22:15, Douglas Bates a écrit :
In the lme4a package I mixed calls to Rf_error and throwing C++
exceptions.  This is causing problems and I plan to replace the calls
to Rf_error by exceptions so that there is a consistent approach.

Many of the calls to Rf_error take advantage of the fact the Rf_error
implicitly calls sprintf to create the error message.  Thus I have
calls like

        if (!d_x.size() == d_nrow * d_ncol)
            ::Rf_error("%s: Dim = (%d, %d) is inconsistent with x.size() = %d",
                       "ddenseMatrix::ddenseMatrix", d_nrow, d_ncol, 
d_x.size());

Is there a similar idiom for creating an exception's "what" argument?
I imagine I could add std::strings and maybe use some iostreams or
something like that ...

Hello,

I've added the sprintf template, defined as:

template <int MAX_SIZE>
const char* sprintf( const char *format, ...) {
    static char buffer[MAX_SIZE];
    va_list(ap);
    va_start(ap, format);
    vsprintf( buffer, format, ap);
    va_end(ap);
    buffer[MAX_SIZE] = '\0';
    return strdup( buffer ) ;
}

so that we can do things like :

fx <- cxxfunction( , '
    return CharacterVector::create(
        sprintf<100>( "bla %d", 10 ),
        sprintf<100>( "bla %s %d", " bla" , 10)
        );
    ', plugin = "Rcpp", verbose = TRUE
)
fx()


This way, I think you can create your exception class like this:


fy <- cxxfunction( , '
    throw foo_exception( 10, 10, 10 ) ;
    ', includes = '

    class foo_exception : public std::exception {
        public:
            foo_exception( int nrow_, int ncol_, int size_):
                nrow(nrow_), ncol(ncol_), size(size_){}
            inline const char* what() const throw(){
                return sprintf<100>(
"%s: Dim = (%d, %d) is inconsistent with x.size() = %d",
                        "ddenseMatrix::ddenseMatrix", nrow, ncol, size
                    ) ;
            }
            ~foo_exception() throw(){}

        private:
            int nrow, ncol, size ;
    } ;


    ', plugin = "Rcpp", verbose = TRUE
)


> tryCatch( fy(), error = function(e) writeLines( conditionMessage(e) ) )
ddenseMatrix::ddenseMatrix: Dim = (10, 10) is inconsistent with x.size() = 10


sprintf is a template, and static data is allocated with it. The parameter should be bug enough to host the full message.

one thing you can do is instantiate the template once :

const char* (*my_sprintf)(const char*, ...) = &sprintf<100> ;

Romain

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