[vtk-developers] Exceptions in Tcl wrapping

[Steve Pieper]

Hi Andy -

The version of exception handling that we put into the vtk tcl wrapping 
has been a huge help already, particularly for ITK code wrapped in VTK. 
  I don't know of any downsides.

-Steve


Andy Cedilnik wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am considering adding exceptions to Tcl wrappings and maybe to other
> ones. The way they would work is that if you invoke VTK method that
> throws exception, the tcl wrapping would catch the exception and report
> it as a Tcl error. This way you can gracefully exit application in case
> of running out of memory or something similar.
> 
> The exception handling code will be placed to vtk*CppCommand around the
> if's that determine the method called. This way there is a single
> try/catch block per vtk*Tcl.cxx file, which means no issues compile time
> and run time performance, and I don't think any other code should be
> affected.
> 
> Let me know if there are any issues with this. If the code is
> acceptable, I intend to backport it to VTK 4.4.
> 
> Also, I am considering adding the same code to Python wrapping if there
> is any interest.
>