[SLING-11364] Allow dedicated handling of networking issues

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Apache Sling Testing Clients 3.0.12
• Fix Version/s: Apache Sling Testing Clients 3.0.14
• Component/s: Apache Sling Testing Clients
• Assignee: Joerg Hoh
• Reporter: Joerg Hoh
• Created: 01/Jun/22 11:40
• Updated: 29/Aug/22 13:51
• Resolved: 08/Jun/22 15:25

Description

Right now the ClientException is the only exception which is used to report unexpected situations, including:

• networking errors (e.g. timeouts)
• unexpected statuscodes
• or otherwise unexpected results.

This makes is hard at the level of a test driver to easily split between infrastructure errors and actual test failures, because it always needs a lock into the logs of the test execution to distinguish these.

To make such a change backwards-compatible, new Exceptions should be introduced which inherit from the existing ClientException. This does not require any changes to signatures, but allow the test-driver to clearly distinguish these different types of errors.