On 11/22/2022 10:24 PM, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:59:47 GMT, Michael StJohns <mstjo...@comcast.net> wrote:

… CardException doesn't always pass through the details in a comprehensible way 
from the underlying cause, …
Does it sound like a cause that the public APIs are not sufficient? 
Alternatively, if it is possible to update the public APIs instead?

I once actually wondered why PCSCException existed, rather than using or extending CardException (e.g. besides simply to have a place to put all of the SCARD related error messages).

So you'd suggest extending CardException with a "getErrorCode()" method, a constructor that takes an error code in addition to a message, and a protected errorCode field.   Have PCSCException extend CardException and provide the current single argument constructor to create a CardException with an error message based on the error code?

One of the main reasons I would like a change like this is to deal with Window's semi-weird behavior when listing terminals and no terminals are found.  Right now I have to parse the returned message looking for "SCARD_E_SERVICE_STOPPED" and if that occurs, I return an empty list of terminals rather than continuing the throw.  There are a few of those codes where it makes sense to translate them into different behavior.

Mike





Best,
Xuelei


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On 11/17/2022 10:27 PM, Xue-Lei Andrew Fan wrote:

Hi - Sorry - just getting back to the list after a few days away.

Given that this is a plugin provider for the PCSC access classes, and
that CardException doesn't always pass through the details in a
comprehensible way from the underlying cause, having access to
PCSCException makes a lot of sense, and as far as I can tell is not a
violation of the general plugin contract.

To make it even more useful, adding a "public long getErrorCode()"
method to PCSCException would help with the cases where a code that
isn't actually an? SCard* related code causing the PCSC exception.

But -

Wouldn't this also require a change to the module definition file?

Mike

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