An Exceptionally Clever Cow - PHP

Next, let's look at exception handling. If you go back to the example on the previous page, you'll see that the Java class includes a couple of exception handlers, one for IOExceptions and one for everything else. Let's now modify the PHP script so that it includes some basic exception handling.

<?php
// create an instance of the ReverseString object
$obj = new Java("ReverseString");
// create an instance of the StringWriter object
$writer = new Java("java.io.StringWriter");
$obj->setWriter($writer);
$obj->reverse("The cow jumped over the moon");
// get the last exception
$e = java_last_exception_get();
if ($e)
{
// print error
echo $e->toString(); 
}
else
{
echo $writer->toString();
$writer->flush();
$writer->close();
}
// clear the exception
java_last_exception_clear();
?>

This version of the script uses two built-in PHP functions to check whether or not any exceptions were raised during the execution of the class methods. If any exceptions were raised, they would be stored in the $e PHP variable, and printed via a call to the toString() method.

If you'd like to see how an exception is handled, modify the PHP script above to look like this:

<?php
// create an instance of the ReverseString object
$obj = new Java("ReverseString");
// create an instance of the StringWriter object
$writer = new Java("java.io.StringWriter");
// deliberately introduce an error by commenting out the next line //
$obj->setWriter($writer);
// suppress errors here
@$obj->reverse("The cow jumped over the moon");
// get the last exception
$e = java_last_exception_get();
if ($e)
{
// print error
echo $e->toString(); 
}
else
{
echo $writer->toString();
$writer->flush();
$writer->close();
}
// clear the exception
java_last_exception_clear();
?>

Here's what the output looks like:

java.lang.Exception: Something really bad happened

Of course, this simple and graceful error message gets a little more unfriendly if you remove the @ error-suppression operator.

Warning: java.lang.Exception: Something really bad happened in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/java/exception.php on line 10
java.lang.Exception: Something really bad happened

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