xgeek116
Handle/render errors or raise exceptions
Hello,
In my Phoenix application, my domain module will return a tuple {:error, reason} to the controller, I have 2 questions :
- What is the recommended value for the var “reason” ? Is it the error code atom (:not_found, :forbidden etc.) or the error message ?
- In the controller, which is better ? to raise the right exception (with the plug status) based on the error code or to render them ? is there a difference between handle error and raise the exception ?
First Post!
cloudytoday
I think it’s highly personal and situational. My subjective opinion is that if you’re not planning to show the error reason to end-users and if no extra context is required, an atom will suffice. I also don’t like exceptions in general and prefer to deal with error values rather than all this runtime magic. Therefore any expected error is, for me, not exceptional.
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