How to handle exceptions when creating a FileStream

Question

I have such a function that I would like to reorganize

   function Myfunction(sUrl, sFile: String) : Boolean;
    var
      GetData : TFileStream;
    begin
      Result := False;
      //if the line below fails, I get an unhandled exception
      GetData := TFileStream.Create(sFile, fmOpenWrite or fmCreate);
      try        
        try
          IdHTTP.Get(sUrl, GetData);
          Result := (IdHTTP.ResponseCode = 200);
        except
          on E: Exception do begin
            MessageBox(0, PChar(E.message), 'Niðurhala skrá', MB_ICONERROR or MB_OK);
          end;
        end;
      finally
        GetData.Free;
      end;
    end;

    Procedure SomeOtherCode;
     Begin
        //How can I best defend against the unhandled exception above
        //unless the call to the function is packed in a try .. except block
        //the code jumps skips the if statement an goes to next 
        //exception block on the stack
        if MyFunction('http://domain.com/file.html', 'c:\folder\file.html') then
            ShowMessage('Got the file')
         else
            ShowMessage('Error !');
        End
     end;

Question:

Note the comment in the SomeOtherCode procedure above.

Regards

Answer 1

Just wrap the code in which you want to catch exceptions in the try..except block:

function MyFunction(...): Boolean;
var
  Stream: TFileStream;
begin
  Result := False;
  try
    Stream := TFileStream.Create(...);
    try
      // more code
      Result := ...
    finally
      Stream.Free;
    end;
  except
    // handle exception
  end
end;

Answer 2

All information about exception handling consists of two parts:

• finallydesigned to clean resources; you often see this in business logic.
• exceptdesigned to respond to a specific exception (and get rid of state logic through function results and intermediate variables); you hardly see it in business logic.

In your case:

Myfunction , except, MessageBox, .
SomeOtherCode except , .

:

procedure Myfunction(sUrl, sFile: String);
var
  GetData: TFileStream;
begin
  Result := False;
  //if the line below fails, I get an unhandled exception
  GetData := TFileStream.Create(sFile, fmOpenWrite or fmCreate);
  try        
    IdHTTP.Get(sUrl, GetData);
    if (IdHTTP.ResponseCode <> 200) <> then
      raise Exception.CreateFmt('Download of %s failed, return code %d', [sURl, IdHTTP.ResponseCode]);
  finally
    GetData.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure SomeOtherCode:
begin
  try
    MyFunction('http://domain.com/file.html', 'c:\folder\file.html');
  except
    on E: Exception do begin
      MessageBox(0, PChar(E.message), 'Niðurhala skrá', MB_ICONERROR or MB_OK);
    end;
  end;
end;

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Answer 3

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procedure Download(sUrl, sFile: String);

try
  Download ('http://domain.com/file.html', 'c:\folder\file.html');
  ShowMessage('Got the file')
except
  on E:Exxx do 
  begin
    // handle exception
    ShowMessage('Error !');
  end
end;

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Answer 4

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function Myfunction(sUrl, sFile: String) : Boolean;
var
  GetData : TFileStream;
begin
  Result := False;
  try
    //if the line below fails, I get an unhandled exception
    GetData := TFileStream.Create(sFile, fmOpenWrite or fmCreate);
    try        
      try
        IdHTTP.Get(sUrl, GetData);
        Result := (IdHTTP.ResponseCode = 200);
      except
        on E: Exception do begin
          MessageBox(0, PChar(E.message), 'Niðurhala skrá', MB_ICONERROR or MB_OK);
        end;
      end;
    finally
      GetData.Free;
    end;
  except
    // you can handle specific exceptions (like file creation errors) or any exception here
  end;
end;

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function DownloadToAFile(const sUrl, sFile: string): boolean;
var
  GetData : TFileStream;
begin
  GetData := TFileStream.Create(sFile, fmOpenWrite or fmCreate);
  try        
    IdHTTP.Get(sUrl, GetData);
    Result := (IdHTTP.ResponseCode = 200);
  finally
    GetData.Free;
  end;
end;

function UIDownloadToAFile(const sUrl, sFile: string): boolean;
begin
  try
    Result := DownloadToAFile(sURL, sFile);
  except
    on E: EIDException do //IndyError
      MessageBox(0, PChar(E.message), 'Internet Error', MB_ICONERROR or MB_OK);
    on E: EFileCreateError do //just can't remember the extact class name for this error
      MessageBox(0, PChar(E.message), 'File create Error', MB_ICONERROR or MB_OK);
  end;
end;

procedure SomeOtherCode:
begin
  if UIDownloadToAFile('http://domain.com/file.html', 'c:\folder\file.html') then
    ShowMessage('Got the file')
   else
     ShowMessage('Error !');
end;

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Answer 5

You should use only one tryand get all your functional code in it.

Answer 6

For some reason, most people abuse the exception-ending combination. Correct sequence

try 
  // allocate resource here
  try 
  finally
    // free resource here
  end;
except
  // handle exception here
end;

This allows you to catch exceptions in the constructor and destructor.