[Web-SIG] httpy -- raise Response(409)

[Jonathan Ellis]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:07:52 -0500, "Chad Whitacre" <chad at zetaweb.com>
said:
>  From conversations this weekend (briefly with Jim; also with Guido) it 
> seems that the most controversial aspect of httpy's API is the use of 
> raise for flow control. I wonder if you all wouldn't mind helping me get 
> to the bottom of this issue?

I agree with the general sentiment that raise/except to pass Response
objects around feels clunky.

> I think the trick is that in HTTP, success and error conditions both 
> produce the same result: a Response message. In Python we distinguish 
> the two: successful "requests" (i.e., function calls) return something; 
> bad requests raise something.

If the source of your unease is the handler returning both "success" and 
"error" responses itself, I'm more comfortable with the abstraction of a 
handler raising some NotFoundError, for instance, and translating that 
into a 404 response farther up the stack.

(Spyce takes this approach because centralizing exception handling like
this makes it easy to allow the user to plug in a custom function to
handle
them if necessary.)

-Jonathan
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