Merge branch 'streams' of git://github.com/marekjm/diaspora-api into streams
[diaspy.git] / diaspy / errors.py
1 #!/usr/bin/env python3
2
3
4 class DiaspyError(Exception):
5 """Base exception for all errors
6 raised by diaspy.
7 """
8 pass
9
10
11 class LoginError(DiaspyError):
12 """Exception raised when something
13 bad happens while performing actions
14 related to logging in.
15 """
16 pass
17
18
19 def react(r, message='', accepted=[200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206], exception=DiaspyError):
20 """This method tries to decides how to react
21 to a response code passed to it. If it's an
22 error code it will raise an exception (it will
23 call `throw()` method.
24
25 If response code is not accepted AND cannot
26 be matched to any exception, generic exception
27 (DiaspyError) is raised (provided that `exception`
28 param was left untouched).
29
30 By default `accepted` param contains all HTTP
31 success codes.
32
33 User can force type of exception to raise by passing
34 `exception` param.
35
36 :param r: response code
37 :type r: int
38 :param message: message for the exception
39 :type message: str
40 :param accepted: list of accepted error codes
41 :type accepted: list
42 :param exception: preferred exception to raise
43 :type exception: valid exception type (default: DiaspyError)
44 """
45 if r in accepted: e = None
46 else: e = DiaspyError
47
48 if e is not None: e = exception
49 throw(e, message=message)
50
51
52 def throw(e, message=''):
53 """This function throws an error with given message.
54 If None is passed as `e` throw() will not raise
55 anything.
56
57 :param e: exception to throw
58 :type e: any valid exception type or None
59 :param message: message for exception
60 :type message: str
61 """
62 if e is None: pass
63 else: raise e(message)