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Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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They both have their place. I just recently discovered a bug in lemmy bot I wrote where the lemmy API module will raise an Exception if login fails (response status code != 200), which feels extremely out of place, as the error/status code do matter in that case.
Other times exceptions make more sense as Phillip pointed out. It's ~~easier~~ faster to ask for forgiveness than permission after all.
Why would it be 200? Imo it should be either 400 or 401.
I think with http request failures losing the status code can be a real pain. There's a big difference between 400, 401, 404 and 500 for instance.