How to handle error thrown by module in perl - oracle

Question

I am using the module DBD::Oracle in perl to insert xml contents into oracle 11 g instance. While inserting some of the documents in my sample set the script fails as the module returns Unsupported named object type for bind parameter. I would like to handle this error and make the loop iteration to go on.
following is my code,
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_session_modes);
use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types);
die("USAGE: $0 <input_directory>") unless ($#ARGV == 0);
my $directory=$ARGV[0];
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oraclle:dbname',"username", "pass");
my $SQL;
opendir(IMD, $directory) || die ("Cannot open directory");
my #listOfFiles= readdir(IMD);
closedir(IMD);
my $xmltype_string;
my $xml;
my $i = 1;
foreach my $file(#listOfFiles)
{
unless($file eq '.' or $file eq '..')
{
print "inserting File no. $i \t $file .... \n";
{
local $/=undef;
open (FILE , "<" , "$directory/$file" );
$xml=<FILE>;
close (FILE);
}
$SQL="insert into sampleTable values ( :ind, :xml)";
my $sth =$dbh-> prepare($SQL);
$sth->bind_param(":xml" , $xml , { ora_type => ORA_XMLTYPE});
$sth->bind_param(":ind" , $i);
$sth-> execute();
$i++;
}
}
Am getting the error in bind param.

Answer 1

Error handling is usually done via the Try::Tiny module:
use Try::Tiny;
try {
something_that_could_die();
}
catch {
handle_error($_);
}
finally {
do_something_either_way();
}; # ← trailing semicolon not optional.
Both catch and finally are optional.