SAX2: Should SAXException extend IOException?

[Rajiv Mordani]

java.util.zip.ZipException deriving from IOException is appropriate. It is
related to i/o so it makes sense to have that. Incase of
java.net.MalformedURLExcetion ther could be an argument why it derives
from IOException. However in case of SAX it is a callback mechanism It
doesn't do the IO operations. It is the parser code / the person
implementing the xml file handling doing that. So if any IO errors occur
it will be detected earlier on, before the callback happens. Hence I don't
see the rationale in making the SAXHandlers throw IOException. It is just
a callbck/event mechanism which occurs after IO operations have been done
it should derive from RuntimeException rather than IOException IMHO. 

- Rajiv

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, David Megginson wrote:

> Rajiv Mordani writes:
> 
>  > I am not sure what the intent is of having IOException. I think
>  > SAXException seems appropriate to me..
> 
> I'd like to hear as many opinions on this point as possible.  What is
> the rationale for *not* deriving SAXException from IOException when
> (for example) java.net.MalformedURLException and
> java.util.zip.ZipException are derived from IOException?
> 
> I especially like the idea that higher-level libraries could have
> 
>   void importXML (String uri) throws IOException;
> 
> without the application's having any direct dependency on SAX
> interfaces.  It could accomplish the same thing by having a
> SAXExceptionAdapter that embeds the SAXException and extends
> IOException, but that seems like a lot of unnecessary fuss for a very
> common case.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> David
> 
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