我为我的应用程序不期望的每个条件创建了异常。UserNameNotValidException, PasswordNotCorrectException等。

然而,我被告知我不应该为这些条件创造例外。在我的UML中,那些是主要流程的异常,那么为什么它不应该是异常呢?

是否有创建异常的指导或最佳实践?


当前回答

我对异常的使用有哲学问题。基本上,您期待一个特定的场景发生,但不是明确地处理它,而是将问题推到“其他地方”处理。至于“其他地方”在哪里,谁也说不准。

其他回答

其他人建议不应该使用异常,因为在正常流程中,如果用户输入错误,就会出现错误的登录。我不同意,我不明白其中的道理。与打开文件相比。如果该文件不存在或由于某种原因不可用,则框架将抛出异常。使用上述逻辑是微软的一个错误。他们应该返回一个错误代码。解析、webrequest等也一样。

I don't consider a bad login part of a normal flow, it's exceptional. Normally the user types the correct password, and the file does exist. The exceptional cases are exceptional and it's perfectly fine to use exceptions for those. Complicating your code by propagating return values through n levels up the stack is a waste of energy and will result in messy code. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work. Don't prematurely optimize by using error codes, exceptional stuff by definition rarely happens, and exceptions don't cost anything unless you throw them.

异常是一种代价高昂的效果,例如,如果您有一个用户提供了无效的密码,那么通常更好的方法是返回一个失败标志,或其他一些无效的指示。

这是由于异常处理的方式,真正的错误输入和唯一的关键停止项应该是异常,而不是失败的登录信息。

The simple answer is, whenever an operation is impossible (because of either application OR because it would violate business logic). If a method is invoked and it impossible to do what the method was written to do, throw an Exception. A good example is that constructors always throw ArgumentExceptions if an instance cannot be created using the supplied parameters. Another example is InvalidOperationException, which is thrown when an operation cannot be performed because of the state of another member or members of the class.

在您的情况下,如果调用Login(用户名,密码)这样的方法,如果用户名无效,抛出UserNameNotValidException或PasswordNotCorrectException(密码不正确)确实是正确的。用户不能使用提供的参数登录(即,这是不可能的,因为它将违反身份验证),因此抛出异常。尽管我可能从ArgumentException继承了两个异常。

话虽如此,如果因为登录失败可能很常见而不希望抛出异常,一种策略是创建一个方法,该方法返回表示不同失败的类型。这里有一个例子:

{ // class
    ...

    public LoginResult Login(string user, string password)
    {
        if (IsInvalidUser(user))
        {
            return new UserInvalidLoginResult(user);
        }
        else if (IsInvalidPassword(user, password))
        {
            return new PasswordInvalidLoginResult(user, password);
        }
        else
        {
            return new SuccessfulLoginResult();
        }
    }

    ...
}

public abstract class LoginResult
{
    public readonly string Message;

    protected LoginResult(string message)
    {
        this.Message = message;
    }
}

public class SuccessfulLoginResult : LoginResult
{
    public SucccessfulLogin(string user)
        : base(string.Format("Login for user '{0}' was successful.", user))
    { }
}

public class UserInvalidLoginResult : LoginResult
{
    public UserInvalidLoginResult(string user)
        : base(string.Format("The username '{0}' is invalid.", user))
    { }
}

public class PasswordInvalidLoginResult : LoginResult
{
    public PasswordInvalidLoginResult(string password, string user)
        : base(string.Format("The password '{0}' for username '{0}' is invalid.", password, user))
    { }
}

Most developers are taught to avoid Exceptions because of the overhead caused by throwing them. It's great to be resource-conscious, but usually not at the expense of your application design. That is probably the reason you were told not to throw your two Exceptions. Whether to use Exceptions or not usually boils down to how frequently the Exception will occur. If it's a fairly common or an fairly expectable result, this is when most developers will avoid Exceptions and instead create another method to indicate failure, because of the supposed consumption of resources.

下面是一个使用Try()模式避免在类似刚刚描述的场景中使用exception的例子:

public class ValidatedLogin
{
    public readonly string User;
    public readonly string Password;

    public ValidatedLogin(string user, string password)
    {
        if (IsInvalidUser(user))
        {
            throw new UserInvalidException(user);
        }
        else if (IsInvalidPassword(user, password))
        {
            throw new PasswordInvalidException(password);
        }

        this.User = user;
        this.Password = password;
    }

    public static bool TryCreate(string user, string password, out ValidatedLogin validatedLogin)
    {
        if (IsInvalidUser(user) || 
            IsInvalidPassword(user, password))
        {
            return false;
        }

        validatedLogin = new ValidatedLogin(user, password);

        return true;
    }
}

异常与返回错误代码参数应该是关于流控制的,而不是哲学(错误有多“异常”):

void f1() throws ExceptionType1, ExceptionType2 {}

void catchFunction() {
  try{
    while(someCondition){
      try{
        f1(); 
      }catch(ExceptionType2 e2){
        //do something, don't break the loop
      }
    }
  }catch(ExceptionType1 e1){
    //break the loop, do something else
  }

}

“PasswordNotCorrectException”不是一个使用异常的好例子。用户输入错误的密码是意料之中的,所以在我看来,这几乎不是个例外。您甚至可能从中恢复,显示一个漂亮的错误消息,因此这只是一个有效性检查。

未处理的异常将最终停止执行——这是好事。如果返回false、null或错误代码,则必须自己处理程序的状态。如果您忘记检查某个地方的条件,您的程序可能会继续使用错误的数据运行,并且您可能很难弄清楚发生了什么以及在哪里发生了什么。

当然,空的catch语句也可能导致同样的问题,但至少发现这些语句更容易,而且不需要理解逻辑。

所以根据经验:

在您不想要或无法从错误中恢复的地方使用它们。