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After a good run of 0.x releases, Errata 1.0.0 is here — the first stable, production-ready release. The public API is now covered by Sem...
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I’m trying to create a system where I will expose to end users the option to run tasks in the background. I want these users to be able t...
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On a regular basis I’m seeing errors reported to Sentry such as GenServer #PID<0.106725.0> terminating
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In Ecto programming, could this be described as an anti-pattern?
# Database operation
Repo.some_operation(...)
rescue
error ->
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Announcing Errata, an Elixir library for consistent and structured error handling.
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:castle: Tower is an Elixir library that provides a standard interface for Exception Tracking and Reporting, agnostic/neutral to which se...
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I’m in the process of working on a library, where I want to have quite expressive exceptions (due to a lot of domain specific constraints...
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I have this function and the exception is being raised as expected. However, the block is still being evaluated even though the condition...
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Hi All,
I have upgraded Phoenix to 1.5.14 and plug 1.14.
I am getting below error after upgrading.
warning: function actions/1 requir...
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In my Phoenix application, my domain module will return a tuple {:error, reason} to the controller, I have 2 questions :
What...
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I have defined a custom exception :
defmodule UnkownBookError do
@moduledoc false
defexception message: "Unknown book id", pl...
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:castle: Tower is an Elixir library that provides a standard interface for Exception Tracking and Reporting, agnostic/neutral to which se...
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I’m in the process of working on a library, where I want to have quite expressive exceptions (due to a lot of domain specific constraints...
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In Ecto programming, could this be described as an anti-pattern?
# Database operation
Repo.some_operation(...)
rescue
error ->
...
New
I have this function and the exception is being raised as expected. However, the block is still being evaluated even though the condition...
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On a regular basis I’m seeing errors reported to Sentry such as GenServer #PID<0.106725.0> terminating
The “crash reason” reported...
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Want to open here another discussion about error handling concepts in Elixir because it looks like I really stuck here by mysel...
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I am using something like this to to handle Websocket requests:
def handle_in("new_msg", data, socket) do
# do something with dat...
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I can’t seem to make custom exceptions work. If I define a module like this:
defmodule MyApp.CustomException do
defexception message:...
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I am getting an environment variable in one of my functions, and if that variable is not set or empty then I want to raise an exception b...
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I need to handle and catch ecto exceptions to return my custom exceptions, my current functions is :
def list_books(filters) when is_...
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I’m just discovering defexception but I think the docs are not correct (?). It says " The Exception (Exception — Elixir v1.20.2) behavio...
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This a question regarding best practices when handling 3rd party exceptions/exits.
I ran into a problem with calling AMQP.Queue.dec...
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to handle the authorization layer of a Phoenix app I’m working on which has brought me full circle to ...
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In my Phoenix application, my domain module will return a tuple {:error, reason} to the controller, I have 2 questions :
What...
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The goal is to have all exception that occurs and send it to an external service, like sentry.
I managed to catch them for:
e...
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Neither Sentry nor AppSignal can track BEAM crashes, because they crash together with BEAM. The app automatically restarts, so external m...
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I have an umbrella app(having one core Elixir and two Phoenix apps) running on prod in a docker container. In the dev environment if ther...
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I wrote a test like this:
test "Exception should be raised" do
assert_raise MyApp.CustomException, fn -> MyApp.do_something("invali...
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I am currently building a small library that has to traverse a tree of nodes and transform this tree into a document. This tree traversal...
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Hi All,
I have upgraded Phoenix to 1.5.14 and plug 1.14.
I am getting below error after upgrading.
warning: function actions/1 requir...
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