A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a question on the Enterprise Library GDN workspace, asking about how they could configure the Exception Handling block without using an external configuration file. I wrote a bit of code to do that, and I wanted to share it with everyone else.
Here is my solution. This first part is a very small change I made to ExceptionPolicy to allow it to accept an ExceptionPolicyFactory through an additional HandledException method.
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// Exception Handling Application Block
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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration.ObjectBuilder;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Instrumentation;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.Properties;
using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling.Instrumentation;
namespace Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.ExceptionHandling
{
///
/// Represents a policy with exception types and
/// exception handlers.
///
public static class ExceptionPolicy
{
private static readonly ExceptionPolicyFactory policyFactory = new ExceptionPolicyFactory();
public static bool HandleException(Exception exceptionToHandle, string policyName)
{
return HandleException(exceptionToHandle, policyName, policyFactory);
}
public static bool HandleException(Exception exceptionToHandle, string policyName, ExceptionPolicyFactory factory)
{
if (exceptionToHandle == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("exceptionToHandle");
if (factory == null) throw new ArgumentException("factory");
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(policyName)) throw new ArgumentException(Resources.ExceptionStringNullOrEmpty);
ExceptionPolicyImpl policy = GetExceptionPolicy(exceptionToHandle, policyName, factory);
return policy.HandleException(exceptionToHandle);
}
private static ExceptionPolicyImpl GetExceptionPolicy(Exception exception, string policyName, ExceptionPolicyFactory factory)
{
try
{
return factory.Create(policyName);
}
catch (ConfigurationErrorsException configurationException)
{
try
{
DefaultExceptionHandlingEventLogger logger = EnterpriseLibraryFactory.BuildUp();
logger.LogConfigurationError(configurationException, policyName);
}
catch { }
throw;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
try
{
string exceptionMessage = ExceptionUtility.FormatExceptionHandlingExceptionMessage(policyName, ex, null, exception);
DefaultExceptionHandlingEventLogger logger = EnterpriseLibraryFactory.BuildUp();
logger.LogInternalError(policyName, exceptionMessage);
}
catch { }
throw new ExceptionHandlingException(ex.Message, ex);
}
}
}
}
And here is an example I took from the ExceptionHandling basic quickstart. If you take this code and put it in the QuickStartForm.Main method and adjust the constructor for AppService to take an ExceptionPolicyFactory, then you should have a complete example. I’ve tried to indent the construction of the objects to make it more clear about what is being created and how it all gets hooked up.
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
DictionaryConfigurationSource internalConfigurationSource = new DictionaryConfigurationSource();
ExceptionHandlingSettings settings = new ExceptionHandlingSettings();
NamedElementCollection policyData = settings.ExceptionPolicies;
ExceptionPolicyData globalPolicyData = new ExceptionPolicyData("Global Policy");
NamedElementCollection globalPolicyExceptionTypes = globalPolicyData.ExceptionTypes;
ExceptionTypeData exceptionType = new ExceptionTypeData("Exception", typeof(Exception), PostHandlingAction.None);
NameTypeConfigurationElementCollection exceptionTypeHandlers = exceptionType.ExceptionHandlers;
exceptionTypeHandlers.Add(new CustomHandlerData("Custom Handler", typeof(AppMessageExceptionHandler)));
globalPolicyExceptionTypes.Add(exceptionType);
ExceptionPolicyData handleAndResumeData = new ExceptionPolicyData("Handle and Resume Policy");
NamedElementCollection handleAndResumeExceptionTypes = handleAndResumeData.ExceptionTypes;
handleAndResumeExceptionTypes.Add(exceptionType);
ExceptionPolicyData propagatePolicyData = new ExceptionPolicyData("Propagate Policy");
NamedElementCollection propagatePolicyExceptionTypes = propagatePolicyData.ExceptionTypes;
ExceptionTypeData exceptionWithRethrowType = new ExceptionTypeData("Exception", typeof(Exception), PostHandlingAction.NotifyRethrow);
propagatePolicyExceptionTypes.Add(exceptionWithRethrowType);
ExceptionPolicyData replacePolicyData = new ExceptionPolicyData("Replace Policy");
NamedElementCollection replacePolicyExceptionTypes = replacePolicyData.ExceptionTypes;
ExceptionTypeData securityExceptionType = new ExceptionTypeData("SecurityException", typeof(SecurityException), PostHandlingAction.ThrowNewException);
NameTypeConfigurationElementCollection securityExceptionTypeHandlers = securityExceptionType.ExceptionHandlers;
securityExceptionTypeHandlers.Add(new ReplaceHandlerData("Replace Handler", "Replaced Exception: User is not authorized to peform the requested action.", typeof(ApplicationException)));
replacePolicyExceptionTypes.Add(securityExceptionType);
ExceptionPolicyData wrapPolicyData = new ExceptionPolicyData("Wrap Policy");
NamedElementCollection wrapPolicyExceptionTypes = wrapPolicyData.ExceptionTypes;
ExceptionTypeData dbConcurrencyExceptionType = new ExceptionTypeData("DBConcurrencyException", typeof(DBConcurrencyException), PostHandlingAction.ThrowNewException);
NameTypeConfigurationElementCollection dbConcurrencyExceptionTypeHandlers = dbConcurrencyExceptionType.ExceptionHandlers;
dbConcurrencyExceptionTypeHandlers.Add(new WrapHandlerData("Wrap Handler", "Wrapped Exception: A recoverable error occurred while attempting to access the database.", typeof(BusinessLayerException)));
wrapPolicyExceptionTypes.Add(dbConcurrencyExceptionType);
policyData.Add(globalPolicyData);
policyData.Add(handleAndResumeData);
policyData.Add(propagatePolicyData);
policyData.Add(replacePolicyData);
policyData.Add(wrapPolicyData);
internalConfigurationSource.Add(ExceptionHandlingSettings.SectionName, settings);
policyFactory = new ExceptionPolicyFactory(internalConfigurationSource);
AppForm = new QuickStartForm();
Application.Run(AppForm);
}
If this example isn’t clear to you, please let me know, and I can try to answer any questions that any of you may still have.— bab