What does the error SOAP_STOP imply? - gsoap

I am looking at some code that looks like the following
if (soap_begin_serve(pImpl))
{
if (pImpl->error >= SOAP_STOP)
{
// TODO.
}
return pImpl->error;
}
and trying to figure out what to do in the TODO section there. Any ideas on what SOAP_STOP means?

There's a few clues to what SOAP_STOP does scattered about the various gSOAP support sites. The best clues are here and here. It appears that any gSOAP error from 1000 on up is meant to tell the gSOAP engine to stop further processing.

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Hitting exception when using Google Protobuf Any UnpackTo function in C++

google::protobuf::Any anyResponse = someResponse.response();
ResponseType unpackResp; //ResponseType is a subclass of google::protobuf::Message
if (anyResponse.UnpackTo(&unpackResp))
{
...
}
Running this piece of C++ code and access vialotion exception happens in anyResponse.UnpackTo(&unpackResp). Does someone know how to debug into this function? I checked anyResponse and it looks good.
It went through these files in google::protobuf:
call stack
Anyway I can see these files?

Relevant Http Response Code using graphql-js

Ok here's the thing, I'm trying to figure out how to deal with error handling with graphql-js. (In a case without Relay)
Not specific enough !? Ok so, since graphql-js is catching all errors thrown within resolve functions, I'm kind of confuse on how to deal properly with errors and http responses.
So I had few ideas and would like to know what you think about it !
Always return 200 OK with the graphql response even if containing errors. (Don't like that one)
Switch case on the result.errors[0] and return an http response in respect of the error, returning result.data if no errors. (which could end up being a veeeery long switch case)
Deal with the error handling in the resolve function and throw and object (e.g. { httpCode: 404, msg: 'No X found with the requested id' } )
In the express app.post function(or whatever web framework), having something like:
app.post('/graphql', function(req, res) {
let result = await graphql(req.body);
if(result.errors.size) {
let e = result.errors[0];
res.status(e.httpCode).send(e.msg);
}
res.json(result.data);
}
This doesn't currently work because of the way the error object is marshalled... or at least I haven't found how to get it out of graphql yet. I'm thinking of maybe looking into graphql-js source but I thought I better ask you guys first since I might be missing something obvious.
Obviously, a better idea is welcome !
Cheers :D
I am also trying to figure this out.
The best I have managed to come up with is throwing a custom error in my resolver. Check out apollo-errors. I am not sure if this is the best way, but it could work for you.

DAMAGE: after Normal block in deleting SAXParser xerces

I am working on an old MFC application which uses xerces 2.7 for XML parsing.
In debug mode, while trying to debug a stack corruption, I have been able to narrow down the issue to the following code:
BOOL CXMLHandler::LoadFile(CString fileName)
{
XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize();
SAXParser* parser = new SAXParser();
delete parser;
XMLPlatformUtils::Terminate();
return TRUE;
}
while deleting the parser, I get the error
"DAMAGE: after Normal block (#1695) at 0x0795EEA8."
the SAXParser class is from xerces.
I cannot figure out what is wrong with the code. Can anyone help in finding out what is wrong here. Could a memory leak/corruption elsewhere in the code be causing this?
If that #1695 is the same each time you run add the following to the start of the program:
_CrtSetBreakAlloc(1695);
Allocation number 1695 is the data that has been damaged. The debugger will halt there.

Joomla 3.0 generic database error handling

Going from Joomla 2.5 to 3.0 with my extension, I'm struggling with how to do the DB error handling (since GetErrorNum is deprecated, see also Joomla! JDatabase::getErrorNum() is deprecated, use exception handling instead).
The way that seems to be the one to go according to the question linked above, is to add the following code for each db->query() code:
if (!$db->query()) {
throw new Exception($db->getErrorMsg());
}
In my opinion, that makes DB error handling more awkward than it was before. So far, I simply called a checkDBError() function after a DB call, which queried the ErrorNum and handled any possible error accordingly.
That was independent from how the DB query was actually triggered - there are different ways to do that, and different results on an error: $db->loadResult() returns null on error, $db->query() returns false. So there will now be different checks for different DB access types.
Isn't there any generic way to handle this, e.g. a way to tell Joomla to throw some exception on DB problems? Or do I have to write my own wrapper around the DatabaseDriver to achieve that? Or am I maybe missing something obvious?
Or should I just ignore the deprecation warning for now and continue with using getErrorNum()? I'd like to make my extension future-proof, but I also don't want to clutter it too much with awkward error handling logic.
Just found this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/joomla-dev-general/O-Hp0L6UGcM/XuWLqu2vhzcJ
As I interpret it, there is that deprecation warning, but there is no proper replacement yet anyway...
Unless somebody points out any other proper documentation of how to do it in 3.0, I will keep to the getErrorNum method of doing stuff...
Get getErrorNum() function will solve your problem....
$result = $db->loadResult();
// Check for a database error.
if ($db->getErrorNum())
{
JFactory::getApplication()->enqueueMessage($db->getErrorMsg());
return false;
}

Is there a way to prevent Visual Studio from breaking on exceptions in a specific method?

I know I can control the way Visual Studio handles exceptions according to their type and to the fact that they're eventually caught using the "Exception" dialog.
However, I've got a library that's internally throwing (and catching) an ArgumentOutOfRange exception when I'm calling a specific method. The exception is thrown (and caught by the library) maybe 1% of the time, but I'm calling this method a lot. The editor says it's by design (and indeed, the design they've chosen makes sense).
The thing is that I don't want Visual Studio to break each time the exception is thrown.
I don't want to stop breaking on ArgumentOutOfRange exceptions, as I may have some in my code and want to break on those.
I don't want to enable "just my code" debugging because I'm concerned about the exceptions thrown outside of my code (notably for performance reasons)
Is there a way to achieve this? I've been looking into attributes (such as DebuggerStepThrough), but haven't find something adequate yet.
Any hints on how to do this ?
I don't want to enable "just my code" debugging
Yeah, stop there right now. That is exactly the feature you need to not get the unwanted debugger breaks. If you don't want to know about somebody else's crappy code then flip that checkbox back on.
This invariably goes off the rails when programmers use exceptions for flow control. A very common crime. It takes two of them to turn that into a mess that turns a debugging session into a very tedious click nightmare. When you need the debugger feature that breaks on the first-chance exception then you basically lost if somebody else needed that as well.
Everybody hopes that they can magically use the [DebuggerNonUserCode] or [DebuggerHidden] or [DebuggerStepThrough] attributes to make that problem disappear. It doesn't. The other programmer did not think his code was unimportant enough to deserve those attributes. And, well, it wasn't because there's always a bug hidden in code that uses try/catch-em-all code. Pokémon code.
So Microsoft had to find another way to help programmers deal with crappy library code. They did. Tick that checkbox, bam, solved. Nothing you can do about that crappy code anyway, other than sending a nasty-gram to the author. Don't let us or Microsoft slow you down doing that as well, y'all have to get along to create a product that people like to use.
I think it's not possible in visual studio but it certainly is in WinDbg.
See for example http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2009/08/24/managed-debugging-with-windbg-breaking-on-an-exception-part-1.aspx
On a side note it seems that starting with visual studio 2010 you can load and use WinDbg extension DLLs directly providing aditional functionality (including possibly the one that you need) but I haven't tried this yet - see for example http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=648
What you can do is use Concord, the debug engine that ships with Visual Studio (starting with version 2012). It's quite extensible through a nice managed API (and deployable using vsix technology), but it's not fully documented.
Concord has the concept of debug monitors, that we can hook using the IDkmDebugMonitorExceptionNotification Interface
The cool thing is this interface can monitor all exceptions thrown. It can also "suppress" any detected exception event, which is exactly what we need.
What I suggest is to start with the Hello World sample: . Download it, and make sure it runs as expected for you.
Now, just modify HelloWorld.vsdconfigxml like this:
<!--TODO: If you copy the sample, ensure to regenerate the GUID in this file -->
<!-- 1. change component level to something higher than 40500 -->
<ManagedComponent
ComponentId="51736b11-9fb4-4b6d-8aca-a10a2b7ae768"
ComponentLevel="40501"
AssemblyName="HelloWorld">
<!-- 2. change class full name to HelloWorld.ExceptionHandler, for example -->
<Class Name="HelloWorld.ExceptionHandler">
<Implements>
<InterfaceGroup>
<NoFilter/>
<!-- 3. change supported interface -->
<Interface Name="IDkmDebugMonitorExceptionNotification"/>
</InterfaceGroup>
</Implements>
</Class>
</ManagedComponent>
Then, just create an ExceptionHandler.cs class and put something like this in there:
public class ExceptionHandler : IDkmDebugMonitorExceptionNotification
{
private bool _unhandledDetected;
// we're being called!
public void OnDebugMonitorException(DkmExceptionInformation exception, DkmWorkList workList, DkmEventDescriptorS eventDescriptor)
{
if (_unhandledDetected)
{
// this will cause the program to terminate
eventDescriptor.Suppress();
return;
}
if (exception.ProcessingStage.HasFlag(DkmExceptionProcessingStage.Unhandled))
{
_unhandledDetected = true;
}
else if (exception.ProcessingStage.HasFlag(DkmExceptionProcessingStage.Thrown))
{
if (SuppressException(exception))
{
eventDescriptor.Suppress();
}
}
}
// should we suppress a thrown (1st chance) exception?
private bool SuppressException(DkmExceptionInformation exception)
{
// implement any custom logic in here, for example use the exception's name
if (exception.Name == typeof(ArgumentOutOfRangeException).FullName)
{
// for example, use the module (assembly) name
var clrAddress = (DkmClrInstructionAddress)exception.InstructionAddress;
var clrModule = clrAddress.ModuleInstance;
if (clrModule.Name == "TheUglyOne.dll")
return true; // we don't want this one!
}
return false;
}
}
When you run the project, you should see all exceptions being monitored (regardless of your 'just my code' and/or exception triggers settings), so what you just need to do is implement some logic to suppress the ones you really don't want to see. I've not checked but I suppose you could build your logic using custom attributes as the Dkm classes provide quite a lot of .NET metadata information.
Note: as you can see, there is some trickery to make sure the program will terminate normally.

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