[python3-ldap] Feature requests: clearer errors

[Michael Ströder]

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Am 16.04.2014 21:46, schrieb Joseph L. Casale:
>>> I think re-raising as a subclass of LDAPException is better,
>>> because you cancatch every problem with a single exception handler.
>>> This is also how Requests and urllib do it. It's also important
>>> that all possible exceptions  are properly documented.
>>
>> Just my opinion but I disagree with that. You can't know my use case
>>  and if you trap an exception my scenario requires that yours
>> doesn't, what am I to do?
> 
> Actually I don't see a problem here if the LDAPException subclasses re-raised
> by python3-ldap are fine-grained enough. Remember that exceptions are part of
> the API. The fact that python3-ldap uses the stdlib socket module is IMHO an
> implementation detail and python3-ldap should encapsulate that.

If you think this to the end the API has to double all possible exceptions to
be "fine-grained enough" and keep up with all the exceptions invented in the
future.

Ciao, Michael.

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