Gendarme

Just to add my thoughts to this... I'd agree with Bevan, while this may not strictly adhere to the ideal, extra information is always useful. I have a slight quibble with the name of this rule - ' DoNotSwallowErrorsCatchingNonS ... [More] pecificExceptionsRule ' - I've always thought of 'swollowing' exceptions as catching them and then doing nothing with [Less]

You can still do that, but wrapping specific exceptions you expect. If you answer to that "but I don't know all the exceptions I can expect", I would reply "that is reasonable, but then any non-expected exception should not be wrapped, otherwise you add noise and make the problem more difficult to fix".

Basically I agree with you. But, I want to handle all exceptions in the top tier, that's why in the others tiers, I have created a series of personals exceptions like DALException, ServiceException ...... to wrap and rethrow those originals exceptions. Le samedi 30 juin 2012 05:28:37 UTC+2, Bevan a écrit :

Catching Exception (and not a derived class) in order to wrap the original exception with additional information to give context for the original error is a pretty common pattern, at least in the code I've encountered. The key is that you're not ... [More] catching the exception with an intent to *handle* it, but simply to provide additional context by wrapping it [Less]

It *is* a real violation because you're catching Exception instead of a derived class of Exception. Normally apps have an isolated place with a catch-all though, but just one. And this is the only one which you should add to your Gendarme ignore-list.

I have created a new personal exception named DALException. In the data tier of my application, I wrap the exception catched “e” into this personal exception and rethrow it to the higher tier, but I got a violation “DoNotSwallowErrorsCatchingNon SpecificExceptionsRule”. I don’t think this

Do you mean something like this: [link] ? There's not API, it's just calling the command line tool.

I'd like to have an api to call to create my own msbuild task. Is this available and documented? Andre

I'm running in to this too, here is a link to the commit Jb made: [link] (couldn't get Google to find it from the UID). I'll keep an eye out for news too.

Jb, I am running into similar problems like Alik posted earlier. I downloaded the new 2.11 version of gendarme (gendarme-2.11-snapshot-201103 05-win32-setup), but the problem is still there. Wondering if your hot fix has been included into new 2.11 version release. BTW, I am totally new to using sonar .NET plugin, can you point me to where