ServerXMLHTTP fails on unresolvable ul - xmlhttprequest

We are using the MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60Class to make HTTP requests. Usually this works fine, but on some occasions when the url cannot be resolved, the send method fails. In this case an exception is thrown.
The problem is that we program in Microsoft Dynamcs NAV C/AL code. This language does not support error trapping (try catch).
Does anybody know if there is some setting in the ServerXMLHTTP60Class that prevents the send method from failing?
Note: the send method fails, so checking the response status is not an option.
Thank you!

Depend your on version of Nav you have different ways to handle exeptions.
In Nav 2016 there will be try function
In previous versions you should use if codeunit.run then syntax to catch the exception and getlasterrortext to get error message.
For more information read Vjeco
Another option to avoid unhandled exceptions is to write a wrapper class around ServerXMLHTTP60Class that will catch all exceptions and handle them in the way you like.

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How can I display exception messages from custom functoid errors in the BizTalk Administration Console?

My goal is to influence the error descriptions that appear in BizTalk Administration Console in the Error Information tab of suspended instance windows, after errors occur in my custom functoids. If possible, I would also like the ErrorReport.Description promoted property to display this error description on the failed message.
I've read everything I can find about custom functoid development, but I can't find much about error handling within them. In particular, whenever my functoids throw exceptions, I see the boilerplate "Exception has been thrown at the target of an invocation" message that occurs whenever exceptions occur through reflection, rather than the message on the exception itself.
I had hoped to find something within the BaseFunctoid class framework that would allow me to submit an error string, so as to traverse the reflection boundary. Is there some way to pass error information from within a custom functoid, such that the BizTalk Administration Console will display it?
If I emulate the approach taken by DatabaseLookupFunctoid and DatabaseErrorExtractFunctoid, is there some way I can fail the map with the extracted error, rather than mapping it to a field on the destination schema as is shown in its examples?
The simplest way to do this is using custom C#, writing something like this in your code:
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("EVENT_LOG_SOURCE", "Error message...", System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error);
As Johns-305 mentions, you need to make sure your event source is registered (e.g. System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource("EVENT_LOG_SOURCE", "Application") - but this should really be done as part of your installation steps with an EventLogInstaller or some kind of script to set up the environment). It's certainly true that error handling in BizTalk is just .NET error handling, but one thing to keep in mind is that maps are actually executing as XSLT, and the context in which their executing can have a major impact on how exceptions and errors will be handled, particularly unhandled exceptions.
Orchestrations
If you're executing a transform in an orchestration that has exception handling in it, the exception thrown will be handled and may even fall into additional logging you have in the orchestration - in other words, executing a throw from a C# functiod will work the way you'd think it would work elsewhere in C#. However, I try to avoid this since you never know if a map will at some point be used else where and because exception handling in XSLT doesn't always work the way you'd think (see below).
Send/Receive Ports
Unfortunately, if you're executing a map on a send or receive port and throw an exception within it, you will almost definitely get very unhelpful error message in the event log and a suspended instance in the group hub. There is no easy, straightforward way to simple "cancel" a transform - XSLT 1.0 doesn't have any specified way of doing that (see for example Throwing an exception from XSLT). That leaves you with outputting an error string to a particular node in the output (and/or to the EventLog), or writing lots of completely custom XSLT to try to validate input, or designing your schemas properly and using a validating component where necessary. For example, if you have a node that must match a particular regex, or should never be empty, or should never repeat more than X times, make sure you set those restrictions on the schema and then make sure you pass it through the XmlValidator or similar before attempting to map.
The simplest answer is, you just do.
Keep in mind, there is nothing special at all about error handling in BizTalk apps, it's just regular plain old .Net error handling.
So, what you do is catch the error in you code, write the details to the Windows Event Log (be sure to create a custom Event Source) and...that's it. That is all I do. I don't worry about what appear in BT Admin specifically.strong text

when it is correct purpose of exceptions

I am studying OOP, and I did not understood the concept of exception.
What are the correct uses of exceptions?
Why use exceptions when you already know a possible exception?
For example, I have seen a code sample where the programmer needed to access a file, and had an exception in case the file does not exist. Something like "catch(fileDoesNotExist e)".
Why not use an if to verify before take the action? And use exception only for not known issues, for logging or error messages.
The idea behind the concept of exception was to decouple the error handling code from the "normal" behaviour flow control. That lets to manage/handle the exception further up the call stack.
Historically, with structured language, error handling code (file opening error,...) was mixed within the "business" application code. It was also painful to improve the code in order to manage new error codes.
What are the correct uses of exceptions?
If it is not normal that your file doesn't exist or cannot be opened => it is considered as an exceptional situation => exception => exception handler
Why use exceptions when you already know a possible exception?
To decouple the business application code from the error handling. That eases source code readibility and maintenance.
Exception:
Exception is that interrupt(break) the normal flow of the program.It's thrown at runtime.
Exception Handling
Exception Handling is a mechanism to handle runtime errors such as ClassNotFound, IO, SQL, Remote etc
In java there are mainly two types of exception that checked and unchecked.Other than Error is there
Hierarchy of Exception classes in Java
Why use exceptions when you already know a possible exception?
basically exception handling use to mainly,we assuming in that our particular code will occur some(NullPointerException,ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException etc..)exception.If we not Handle that,program will break.Actually that Exception it may or may not will happen.But so we need to handle normal flow of the program it occurred or not.Otherwise after that particular code section not executing.

Handling pgPL/SQL exceptions From QtSQL

Short and simple:
How to catch pgPL/SQL exceptions with QtSQL?
I haven't found any example or info at the docs.
More details:
I'm developing the front end for a system with Qt 5.3. The database perform some validation at some of the inputs and raise custom exceptions when something is invalid. What I want is to be able to handle these exceptions at he front end code, showing appropriate messages to the user.
EDIT:
I have tried to use the QSqlError class. Although it gave me the exception, it gave me too much data which will need to be parsed to be useful. Is there a way to get the exception raised without parsing the messages?

In mule, how to validate the params and return with error code and message?

I developed a rest service by mule, and I want to validate the input params, throws exception when the params is invalid, and the error handler could catch the exception(a custom exception with error code and message included) and get the error code and message which i could return to client.
Currently I use the choice router to evaluate expression, and set the error expression. I think it's awkward, and inconvenient.
I read the document, seems there is no such example, so what's the best way to handle the situation?
If you go beyond a trivial REST resource, using choice routers won't cut it.
You have two better options:
Use JAX-RS + Jersey module: http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/current/Jersey+Module+Reference
Use APIkit: http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/current/APIkit
The former is based on a standard, the latter is proprietary. In the future, the latter will receive most of MuleSoft's attention.

Preventing Exceptions without Stack Frames with Error Exception Handler and Shutdown Sequences

I've run over a somewhat little problem over the week. The error message upfront this is about:
[30-Dec-2012 15:19:32] PHP Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
I think it is because my error handler (see below for details) is turning any error into an exception. I might should prevent that in case there is no stack frame.
Is there an easy way to find out if there is any stack frame or not in PHP?
Details:
On one of my websites I've got an error handler running that is turning every error into an exception, the common ErrorException to be precise.
I introduced it some time ago because the site is mainly legacy code and I wanted to have any issue result in an exception I can finally "catch" in a streamlined fashion an exception handler and give the request a stop.
I put this into class of it's own, the handler is registered and also in parallel an output buffer is opened to catch the output up until the exception is thrown. Basically code like this:
// register output buffering
$r = ob_start(array($this, 'handleBuffer'));
// register error handler
$this->_originalErrorHandler = set_error_handler(array($this, 'handleError'));
// register exception handler
$this->_originalExceptionHandler = set_exception_handler(array($this, 'handleException'));
This worked all fine and dandy until I decided to add another output buffering class into the mix. Just one that catches as well all output and then can do some "post production" on the website, including checking for HTML problems (yes, it's all a bit legacy so actually this is a bit duck-taped, I know). That also worked very fine btw. however not when I made a mistake in the new component:
[30-Dec-2012 15:19:32] PHP Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
This is basically my problem. Is there an easy way to prevent getting these errors? I somewhat know why the error is given but I'm not so entirely sure so it's hard for me to really circumvent the problem. I tried to release the new output buffer before the script enters the new shutdown phase because I thought this would cause this. But this didn't make it.
Your problem indicates that you are using an EOL (End Of Life) version of PHP (specifically PHP < 5.3.0), which means it's no longer supported. This issue comes from throwing an exception where no strack frame exists and as such the old engine did not know how to handle those exceptions properly.
This can be due to a couple of different reasons. Some of the most common ones are as follows:
You threw an exception from inside an error handler or exception handler.
You threw an exception from inside a destructor.
You threw an exception from inside a callback (like an output buffering callback function).
Here's an example that demonstrates your problem under some of those circumstances...
function myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
{
throw new ErrorException($errstr, $errno, 0, $errfile, $errline);
}
function myExceptionHandler($exception) {
echo "We got an exception with message: '{$exception->getMessage()}'";
}
function myCallBack($contents) {
trigger_error('ohnoes!'); // You can't throw an error from the output buffer callback function in older versions of PHP < 5.3
}
class Foo {
public function __destruct() {
trigger_error('ohnoes!'); // You can't throw an error from a destructor in older versions of PHP < 5.3
}
}
set_error_handler('myErrorHandler');
set_exception_handler('myExceptionHandler');
The above code would cause you to see the fatal error you described here...
ob_start("myCallBack");
... and here...
$foo = new foo;
This problem has been fixed in PHP >= 5.3.0 so you should not see this issue if you were using the most current version of PHP.
The simplest fix is to upgrade your PHP. If that is not an option you must consider these facts that you can not throw exceptions where PHP does not expect them to be thrown (in callback functions, error handlers, exceptions handlers, etc... -- which are actually all considered to be callbacks to PHP).
The other thing is you should not be turning every error into an exception in this way. If what you are doing is as the code I supplied demonstrates (i.e. throwing an exception from inside the error handler -- thus turning every error into an exception) then you are going to cause yourself a lot of pain and with virtually no benefit. PHP errors are not meant to be handled. They are meant to inform the client of a problem (the client being the person writing the PHP code), or potential problem. Handling the error itself is not as simple as turning every error into an exception and then handling that exception, because not every error should be exceptional. For instance, E_NOTICE level errors have no place in exception handling. They are primarily used to notify you of a potential for a bug, not that there is necessarily something buggy with your code and not to mention that most of them can't even be handled easily in user-space code (they mostly require re-factoring the code itself). I strongly advice against this poor practice.