Re:Most RESTful APIs Aren't RESTful
by bunderbunder on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:46PM
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I worked at a place that had a really great coding standard for working with exceptions:
1. Catch exceptions third-party code and talking to the outside world right away.
2. Never catch exceptions that we throw ourselves.
3. Only (and always) throw exceptions when you're in a state where you can't guarantee graceful recovery. Exceptions are for those exceptional circumstances where the best thing to do is fail fast and fail hard.
1. Catch exceptions third-party code and talking to the outside world right away.
2. Never catch exceptions that we throw ourselves.
3. Only (and always) throw exceptions when you're in a state where you can't guarantee graceful recovery. Exceptions are for those exceptional circumstances where the best thing to do is fail fast and fail hard.