[PIVOT-924] Standard handling of exceptions in BXMLSerializer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.4, 2.1
• Component/s: core-serialization
• Assignee: Roger Lee Whitcomb
• Reporter: Karel Hübl
• Created: 21/Oct/13 16:01
• Updated: 30/Oct/13 18:23
• Resolved: 29/Oct/13 18:40

Description

We require handling of all uncaught exceptions using standard mechanism (implementing UncaughtExceptionHandler interface on PivotApplication class).
Similar to recently resolved https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-916, it is currently not possible also in BXMLSerializer class. To resolve this, I would propose to:

1) Handle all exception reporting in BXMLSerializer in single protected method to enable overriding this method in BXMLSerializer descendant. I will upload patch for this.

2) Change scope of static ApplicationContext.handleUncaughtException method to public. This will enable the delegation of exception handling from BXMLSerializer descendants to ApplicationContext. So hacks like this http://svn.codespot.com/a/apache-extras.org/pivot-contrib/trunk/pivot_contrib.util/src/pivot_contrib/util/serializer/InjectingSerializer.java wont be required anymore .

Please let me know, if someone can see more elegant solution.