VA 8: Problem with resumable is nil in Exceptional Event

[Thomas Holzer]

Hi,

In Visual Age 7.5.2 when an error has occured, the instance of the resulting exceptional event has set resumable=false. Visual Age 8.0.2 is having a different behavior: resumable=nil.
Just execute

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Array xxx


And select the ExceptionalEvent row in the stack frame and look at the attribute resumable.

Does this have a particular reason? We are having problems here because our code expects either true or false in resumable attribute. I would appreciate if Visual Age 8.0.2 behaves the same like 7.5.2.

Regards Thomas

[wembley]

Thomas -

Case 48051 opened.

This is only occurring for class-based exceptions with no pre-existing instance-based analog (such as MessageNotUnderstood). Here is the fix:

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Exception class>>newExceptionalEvent
   "Create a new ExceptionalEvent for the Exception subclass.  This method is invoked
    when there is not an already-existing instance-based exception for the Exception
    subclass."

   ^self superclass exceptionalEvent newChild
      markReadOnly: false;
      description: self defaultDescription;
      defaultHandler: [ :signal | signal defaultAction ];
      markReadOnly: true;
      yourself

You will need to execute Exception reset after changing the method in order to clear out the existing instances of ExceptionalEvent.

[Thomas Holzer]

Hi John,

Thank you for the quick response!
Yes that fix works for us. Will this fix go also the next VA 8.0.3 version?

Regards Thomas

[wembley]

Thomas -

Yes, I've released it into this week's build.