/** Destructor.
* Does sweet FA.
*/
- ~classbase() { }
+ virtual ~classbase() { }
};
-/** class Extensible is the parent class of many classes such as userrec and chanrec.
+/** class Extensible is the parent class of many classes such as User and Channel.
* class Extensible implements a system which allows modules to 'extend' the class by attaching data within
* a map associated with the object. In this way modules can store their own custom information within user
* objects, channel objects and server objects, without breaking other modules (this is more sensible than using
bool operator=(BoolSet other);
};
+/** This class can be used on its own to represent an exception, or derived to represent a module-specific exception.
+ * When a module whishes to abort, e.g. within a constructor, it should throw an exception using ModuleException or
+ * a class derived from ModuleException. If a module throws an exception during its constructor, the module will not
+ * be loaded. If this happens, the error message returned by ModuleException::GetReason will be displayed to the user
+ * attempting to load the module, or dumped to the console if the ircd is currently loading for the first time.
+ */
+class CoreExport CoreException : public std::exception
+{
+ protected:
+ /** Holds the error message to be displayed
+ */
+ const std::string err;
+ /** Source of the exception
+ */
+ const std::string source;
+ public:
+ /** Default constructor, just uses the error mesage 'Core threw an exception'.
+ */
+ CoreException() : err("Core threw an exception"), source("The core") {}
+ /** This constructor can be used to specify an error message before throwing.
+ */
+ CoreException(const std::string &message) : err(message), source("The core") {}
+ /** This constructor can be used to specify an error message before throwing,
+ * and to specify the source of the exception.
+ */
+ CoreException(const std::string &message, const std::string &src) : err(message), source(src) {}
+ /** This destructor solves world hunger, cancels the world debt, and causes the world to end.
+ * Actually no, it does nothing. Never mind.
+ * @throws Nothing!
+ */
+ virtual ~CoreException() throw() {};
+ /** Returns the reason for the exception.
+ * The module should probably put something informative here as the user will see this upon failure.
+ */
+ virtual const char* GetReason()
+ {
+ return err.c_str();
+ }
-#endif
+ virtual const char* GetSource()
+ {
+ return source.c_str();
+ }
+};
+
+class CoreExport ModuleException : public CoreException
+{
+ public:
+ /** Default constructor, just uses the error mesage 'Module threw an exception'.
+ */
+ ModuleException() : CoreException("Module threw an exception", "A Module") {}
+
+ /** This constructor can be used to specify an error message before throwing.
+ */
+ ModuleException(const std::string &message) : CoreException(message, "A Module") {}
+ /** This destructor solves world hunger, cancels the world debt, and causes the world to end.
+ * Actually no, it does nothing. Never mind.
+ * @throws Nothing!
+ */
+ virtual ~ModuleException() throw() {};
+};
+#endif