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CPP1111 — CORBA::Exception should not use std::string type for name and repo_id

  • Key: CPP1111-15
  • Legacy Issue Number: 18463
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Remedy IT ( Johnny Willemsen)
  • Summary:

    CORBA::Exception should not use std::string type for name and repo_id for 2 reasons:

    1. C++ standard conformance; member types like std::string are discouraged because their constructors may throw exceptions where std::exception and derivatives are expected not to throw exceptions themselves
    2. (minor) performance; using std::string these member values are unnecessarily copied while they immutable constant strings only ever read, never mutated

    Changing the members to const char* values makes CORBA::Exception and the CORBA::SystemException classes optimal and c++ standard conformant.

    This will not be the case for CORBA::UserException derivatives as these may have IDL defined attributes having IDL defined types which may definitely throw exceptions. However the ORB should be expected to handle situations where creating user exceptions unexpectedly throws another exception.

    Refs #2958

  • Reported: CPP11 1.0 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — CPP11 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Update exception as proposed. During the discussion also it was proposed to define
    what() as noexcept which also has been done

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT